Thai police on Wednesday made considerable progress in its probe into a deadly bombing at a temple here after the main suspect admitted to being at the bombing scene and his fingerprints matched those found on a bottle containing bomb-making materials.
Deputy police chief Chakthip Chaijinda said the main suspect — a foreign man national whose identity has yet to be confirmed — was arrested in Sa Kaeo province near the border while trying to sneak through forest into Cambodia.
Chakthip said the man confessed during interrogation that he had been at the bomb scene at the time of the explosion, but denied he had placed the bomb.
However, results of the investigation still pointed to the possibility that the suspect was the Erawan shrine bomber, police said. Twenty people were killed and over 100 injured in the evening rush hour bomb blast at the temple on August 17.
During interrogation, police learned that he often travelled between Thailand and Cambodia, Chakthip said. The deputy police chief also said the suspect was connected to the first bombing suspect arrested in Bangkok’s Nong Chok district last Saturday.