BANGKOK: An arrest warrant has been issued for a foreigner believed responsible for Monday’s fatal bombing at a Bangkok shrine, as Thailand’s ruling junta said the attack was unlikely to be “international terrorism.”
Thailand’s police chief said on Thursday that at least 10 people were suspected of involvement in the bombing at the Erawan shrine that killed 20 people, more than half of them foreign tourists.
“It is a big network. There was preparation using many people,” police chief Somyot Poompanmuang told reporters.
“This includes those who looked out on the streets, prepared the bomb and those at the site and … those who knew the escape route,” he said.
“There must have been at least 10 people involved.”
On Wednesday police released a sketch of the subject of the warrant – a man spotted on closed-circuit television footage examined after the blast.
The security video footage shows a man wearing a yellow t-shirt and baggy shorts leaving a black backpack at the shrine 15 minutes before the explosion on Monday. Two other men standing nearby have also been identified as suspects
