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Mon, 09/06/2010 - 18:41
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One more Bhumjaithai Party bombing suspect arrested
BANGKOK, Sept 6 - Thai police said on Monday they had arrested another suspect alleged to have been involved in a bombing near the head office of the government's main coalition partner the Bhumjaithai Party, while the detainee confessed that he made the bomb.
Pol Lt-Col Phayao Thongsen, investigator of the Bhumjaithai Party explosion case, said Suriya Bhumwong, 39, was arrested in the northern province of Chiang Mai on Sunday and was later transferred to the capital.
Mr Suriya confessed that he made the bomb and put it in a gas cylinder, but he said he did not know when and how the bomb would be used.
Detectives from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) Monday morning are questioning the suspect and will take him to a re-enactment in the afternoon at the home of Varissareeya Boonsom, another suspect who is now in police custody.
Mr Suriya will also be taken to the Bhumjaithai Party head office for a re-enactment.
Police have so far arrested six out of seven identified suspects with outstanding warrants for their involvement in the bombing.
The last is Mr Samran whose family name is unknown is still at large.
A bomb hidden in a fruit pushcart was remotely detonated near the Bhumjaithai party head office on June 22, seriously wounding Anek Singkhuntod, the cart vendor.
Police detained Mr Anek after he confessed to being hired to park his pushcart close to the Bhumjaithai Party office.
Several days later, two Red Shirt guards alleged to be behind the bombing were apprehended in the eastern provinces of Chantaburi and Chonburi respectively.
Cambodian officials arrested Varissareeya Boonsom and Korbchai Boonplod, another two suspects in the bombing who fled to the neighbouring country just one day after the incident and handed them over to Thai consular officials in Phnom Penh early July. (MCOT online news)
Pol Lt-Col Phayao Thongsen, investigator of the Bhumjaithai Party explosion case, said Suriya Bhumwong, 39, was arrested in the northern province of Chiang Mai on Sunday and was later transferred to the capital.
Mr Suriya confessed that he made the bomb and put it in a gas cylinder, but he said he did not know when and how the bomb would be used.
Detectives from the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) Monday morning are questioning the suspect and will take him to a re-enactment in the afternoon at the home of Varissareeya Boonsom, another suspect who is now in police custody.
Mr Suriya will also be taken to the Bhumjaithai Party head office for a re-enactment.
Police have so far arrested six out of seven identified suspects with outstanding warrants for their involvement in the bombing.
The last is Mr Samran whose family name is unknown is still at large.
A bomb hidden in a fruit pushcart was remotely detonated near the Bhumjaithai party head office on June 22, seriously wounding Anek Singkhuntod, the cart vendor.
Police detained Mr Anek after he confessed to being hired to park his pushcart close to the Bhumjaithai Party office.
Several days later, two Red Shirt guards alleged to be behind the bombing were apprehended in the eastern provinces of Chantaburi and Chonburi respectively.
Cambodian officials arrested Varissareeya Boonsom and Korbchai Boonplod, another two suspects in the bombing who fled to the neighbouring country just one day after the incident and handed them over to Thai consular officials in Phnom Penh early July. (MCOT online news)
