Thailand orders arrests of four more suspects in Bangkok blasts

 

FILE PHOTO: Members of Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team inspect a site of a small explosion at the Prathunam market in central Bangkok, Thailand, August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Panumas Sanguanwong

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities issued arrest warrants on Wednesday for four more suspects believed to be responsible for a series of bomb attacks as the capital hosted a key diplomatic meeting this month.

 

Six small bombs and six incendiary devices went off on Aug. 2 as the foreign ministers of Southeast Asian nations met in Bangkok, an event also attended by diplomats from China, the United States and other world powers.

 

Four people were wounded, with police saying they were seeking at least 15 suspects over the coordinated attacks that could be linked to political issues.

Wednesday's warrants seek four new suspects on charges of organised crime, arson, causing explosion, and illegal possession of explosives, Krisana Pattanacharoen, a deputy police spokesman, told Reuters.

 

"There will be more warrants for others involved," he added, as the investigation continues.

 

Authorities had detained two men on Aug. 2 accused of planting bombs the police said were fake in front of Bangkok police headquarters the day before the coordinated blasts.

 

They have said the two suspects in custody have ties to the insurgency in Thailand's Malay-Muslim-dominated south that has killed nearly 7,000 people since 2004.

 

Police declined to comment on whether the four individuals covered by Wednesday's arrest warrants have ties to the insurgency.

 

(Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-08-15

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That doesn’t look like a small explosion.

Why are they always  issuing "ORDERS" why not  just  "issuing  arrest warrants" cant escape the military nonsense here.

53 minutes ago, dcnx said:

That doesn’t look like a small explosion.

looks  like  the Phuket ex  building  site

Depending on what explosive was used, the amount of damage from one stick or plug or say 40 grams will expand 10,000 times it size when initiated the expanding  gas will do mass damage, so lucky that more deaths did not happen.

A cowardly and callous act.

 

1 hour ago, dcnx said:

That doesn’t look like a small explosion.

It does to those with a small brain, it is the "Thai authorities" we are talking about here after all.

it was a small explosive or a fire bomb, which caused a big fire (stalls selling flammable goods, like clothing)

3 hours ago, dcnx said:

That doesn’t look like a small explosion.

That's what I thought then I figured small explosion follow by a rather large fire.