BANGKOK, Thailand, September 9 (Reuters) — Thai police on Wednesday (September 9) took a second arrested suspect to areas near the blast scene to perform a reconstruction of moments before and after the Bangkok blast incident that killed at least 20 people last month.
Under police interrogation, one of two foreigners in detention admitted to delivering a rucksack to the bomber at Bangkok’s main railway station on the evening of the Aug. 17 attack, two police sources told Reuters.
Early on Wednesday, the second suspect, who was arrested at the Thai-Cambodian border last Monday (September 1), was taken to areas near the Rajaprasong Intersection, Bangkok’s commercial district, where he showed police the where he had been before and after the attack.
Police believe the bomber is the yellow-shirted man still at large and caught by surveillance camera placing a backpack at the Erawan Shrine moments before the explosion that killed 20 people and wounded 130.
Deputy police chief Chakthip Chaijinda told Reuters the man had confessed to being part of a network and to being in the area of the bombing. Chakthip did not elaborate, but added police were looking for four more suspects.
Evidence has been limited to grainy security video at the shrine and the seizure of bomb-making materials in raids on two properties in Bangkok.
Wearing a flak jacket, the man Chakthip said had confessed was made to perform a reconstruction at the two locations before television cameras on Tuesday.
Forensic tests tie the detainees to the explosives, but not the site of the bombing, police say.
Authorities said there was no clear motive for the attack, in which 14 foreign tourists were killed.
Speculation has been rife about the perpetrators, from ethnic Malay insurgents and foreign militants to opponents of the government and sympathizers of Uighur Muslims from China, angered by Thailand’s deportation to China in July of 109 members of the Turkic-speaking minority.
