BANGKOK, Aug 19 – Thai police had released the sketch of the main suspect today who had killed at least 20 people, more than half of them foreigners in bomb blast in Bangkok. The sketch had been showed a man with a fair-skinned, medium-length black hair, a wispy beard and black glasses but they still unclear whether the man was from Thai or a foreigner.
A day after the bombing which on Tuesday, a religious shrine in Bangkok’s was busy to Ratchaprasong commercial district. In the same time, the police also had released the grainy closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage of a young man who aring a yellow t-shirt.
The man was shown in the CCTV footage who was dumping a backpack and walking away from the scene before the few minutes of the blast explosion. Police have said the man is a suspect but that others could be behind the attack due to they did not match to the tactics of Muslim insurgents in the south or “red shirt” supporters of the previous administration. Meanwhile, they also haven’t ruled out any group which are including in the elements of the opposed to the military government.
The police added that the sketch will be helped to locate the yellow-shirted man seen in the CCTV footage. A 1 million baht (RM115,000) reward will be offered to anyone who can give police the truth information which leading them to his arrest. In additional, police also said they will take the sketch to the court and ask that an arrest warrant be issued for a man matching the description.
A police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri also said that the investigation team will be asked for the arrest warrant tonight. He added that “two to three” people also had been questioned by police since the attack. In the same time, Police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang also told the press conference that it was not clear how many people were involved in the attack or if they were still in the country.
