Police arrest foreigner in Bangkok shrine bombing case
BANGKOK - Thai police arrested a foreign suspect and seized bomb-making materials Saturday in the investigation of the bombing of a shrine in central Bangkok that killed 20 people, officials said.
"It is most likely he is related to the bombing at Rajaprasong," deputy police chief Chakthip Chaijinda said of the suspect. The blast at the Erawan Shrine in the commercial Rajaprasong district of the capital on Aug. 17 also left more than 120 people injured.
The man was arrested in Nong Jok on the outskirts of eastern Bangkok. Chakthip said, "We found bomb materials in his apartment."
National police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said that the arrested person is a foreigner, but refused to say if he was Turkish, as was reported by some local news organizations.
