Bangkok bombing suspect may not have acted alone; ‘It’s a network,’ Thai police say
Thai police say the bombing suspect who is being hunted in the Monday explosion that killed 20 people at a downtown Bangkok shrine did not act alone.
They are offering a reward for information.
Police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri says in a tweet that 1 million baht — equivalent to $28,080 — is being offered for any word on the bomber or bombers thought to have planted the explosive device that went off at a downtown shrine on a busy Monday evening, killing 20 people and wounding nearly 130 others.
Photos of one suspect have been released to the public. They show a man in a yellow T-shirt and carrying a backpack.
National chief of police Somyot Poompanmoung says “he didn’t do it alone for sure. It’s a network.”
Investigators believe a man seen in security video wearing a yellow T-shirt and carrying a backpack set off the explosion. Police have released several photos of the man, with and without the backpack, and are asking the public to provide information about him.
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