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Aides of Thailand's late Maj-Gen Khattiya as suspects in Big C bombing
BANGKOK, Aug 1 - Thai Police revealed photographs of several men suspected of involvement in the bombing at a bus stop at Big C department store in Ratchadamri Road last Sunday evening saying they are close aides of the late Red Shirt military strategist army Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol.
The suspects are believed to be linked to several bombings in Bangkok including those outside Big C Ratchadamri on July 25 and opposite the King Power duty free shopping complex in Rangnam Road on July 30.
Pol Lt-Gen Santhan Chayanont, metropolitan police commissioner said that the men depicted were a van syndicate figure and close aides of the slain general.
Police are tracing them -- particularly Mr Pad whose last name is unknown. The suspect's telephone number was found in a Honda car parked at an apartment and he is believed to be a key link in the bombing case.
Investigators in the Big C bombing on Sunday gathered testimony from a female witness, Pathipak Ekapiwat. She said that her younger brother, now in Cambodia, knew the suspects.
Pol Gen Panupong Singhara Na Ayutthaya, chief advisor of the national police, said that inspection of the bomb remains indicated that the circuitry used in the July 25 bomb which exploded at Big C shopping mall was similar to that used in four earlier incidents.
The explosion left one person dead and 10 wounded.
Regarding a bomb in a garbage bin near a duty-free shopping centre on Bangkok’s Rangnam Road which occurred last Friday, Gen Panupong said closed circuit television in the area recorded a picture of a suspect.
He said the case is linked to a bombing outside the home of the chairman of the Election Commission. About 30 bomb experts and retired officials are being invited to a meeting Monday to help provide details on the bomb.
An M-59 hand grenade was used in last Friday’s incident at the King Power duty-free shopping center, leaving a rubbish scavenger hospitalised in critical condition with shrapnel in his head. (MCOT online news)
The suspects are believed to be linked to several bombings in Bangkok including those outside Big C Ratchadamri on July 25 and opposite the King Power duty free shopping complex in Rangnam Road on July 30.
Pol Lt-Gen Santhan Chayanont, metropolitan police commissioner said that the men depicted were a van syndicate figure and close aides of the slain general.
Police are tracing them -- particularly Mr Pad whose last name is unknown. The suspect's telephone number was found in a Honda car parked at an apartment and he is believed to be a key link in the bombing case.
Investigators in the Big C bombing on Sunday gathered testimony from a female witness, Pathipak Ekapiwat. She said that her younger brother, now in Cambodia, knew the suspects.
Pol Gen Panupong Singhara Na Ayutthaya, chief advisor of the national police, said that inspection of the bomb remains indicated that the circuitry used in the July 25 bomb which exploded at Big C shopping mall was similar to that used in four earlier incidents.
The explosion left one person dead and 10 wounded.
Regarding a bomb in a garbage bin near a duty-free shopping centre on Bangkok’s Rangnam Road which occurred last Friday, Gen Panupong said closed circuit television in the area recorded a picture of a suspect.
He said the case is linked to a bombing outside the home of the chairman of the Election Commission. About 30 bomb experts and retired officials are being invited to a meeting Monday to help provide details on the bomb.
An M-59 hand grenade was used in last Friday’s incident at the King Power duty-free shopping center, leaving a rubbish scavenger hospitalised in critical condition with shrapnel in his head. (MCOT online news)
