Suspect of bangkok blast arrested

The main suspect in the Bangkok bombing that killed 20 people last month was arrested on Tuesday, Thailand's prime minister announced.

The most wanted man in Asia appeared in Aug. 17 security footage wearing a yellow shirt and leaving a backpack at
Erawan Shrine and authorities apparently cuffed him two weeks later near the Cambodian border, the Bangkok Post reported.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha reportedly announced the arrest Tuesday afternoon. Officers arrested him as he tried to flee into Cambodia at in the Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province, Prayuth said.


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"We have arrested one more, he is not a Thai," Prayuth said after a weekly cabinet meeting. Officials will fly the man to Bangkok by helicopter and announce the arrest officially at a Tuesday afternoon press conference, according to the Bangkok Post.

TV clips of the suspect show a thin man with a mustache who had his head down as men in military uniforms led him away.


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Police arrested another man on Saturday in a raid of a Bangkok apartment where bomb-making equipment was found. Investigators have been interrogating the man, but they haven't disclosed his name or home country.

Thai police named two other suspects, a Thai woman and a foreign man, on Monday.

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The bomb, Thailand's deadliest, killed 20 people, 14 of them foreigners, at the Erawan Shrine last month.
Foreigners accounted for 14 of the deaths in the bombing at the Hindu shrine and popular tourist draw, and at least 120 other people were also injured. The blast was the deadliest in the country's history.