BANGKOK: There is as yet no evidence directly linking the eight suspects that the Malaysian police arrested last month to the bomb attack in Bangkok in August, according to Thai police.
“There is still no evidence to connect them to the bombing,” said Thai police spokesman Police Lieutenant Prawuth Thavornsiri.
Those suspects might know about the smuggling of people from Thailand to Malaysia, he told the media at the police headquarters here today.
He said Thailand and Malaysia were continuing to communicate and exchange information on the Aug 17 bombing near the Erawan shrine in central Bangkok which killed 20 people and injured 130.
Police have in custody two foreigners, who are reported to have confessed to the bombing, but are still hunting for 15 others, including two Thai nationals, one of them a woman.
Prawuth identified the male Thai as Yongyuth Pobkaew or Odd, who is suspected of having obtained bombmaking materials.
Bangkok Metropolitan police have met his mother but Yongyuth has not lived with her for a long time.
Prawuth said Yongyuth was last seen in Minburi and Nongchok district areas in Bangkok province. – BERNAMA