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Body of suspected bomber found in debris at Nonthaburi apartment
BANGKOK, Oct 6 -- The body of the room renter and suspected bomb-maker at a Nonthaburi apartment was found beneath the debris of the Saman Metta Mansion on Wednesday.
Rescue workers spent nearly four hours retrieving the torso of the body, identified as Samai Wongsuwan, a Chiang Mai native. His identification card showed his home was in Hangdong district.
His room, number 202, was destroyed in the Wednesday bombing.
Pol Maj-Gen Supphakit Srikantaranon, provincial police superintendent, said the investigation found Mr Samai was a suspect in a bombing in Chiang Mai.
The investigation has progressed significantly and is close to an end, he said.
The bomb disposal unit said the bomb was a high pressure type based on urea fertiliser. The bomber must be a specialist to make it.
However, police believed that the explosion was an accident.
Four people were killed in the incident, and nine people were injured and at least two housing units in the complex were destroyed when the blast occurred at 6.30pm.
The building subsided 5 cm as workers used structural steel to reinforce the building for fear that it could collapse in the aftermath of the powerful blast.
National police chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree told reporters after chairing a meeting of high ranking police on the incident that the Bang Bua Thong apartment bombing is linked to four recent bombing attacks--one near Nang Lerng race track (Royal Turf Club) and others at Santirat Wittayalai school in Bangkok, and parking areas of The Mall Ngamwongwan and the Ministry of Public Health in Nonthaburi.
Mr Samai had joined the rally organised by the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) earlier this year. He rented the room on Sept 23 and stayed with a married couple. (MCOT online news)
Rescue workers spent nearly four hours retrieving the torso of the body, identified as Samai Wongsuwan, a Chiang Mai native. His identification card showed his home was in Hangdong district.
His room, number 202, was destroyed in the Wednesday bombing.
Pol Maj-Gen Supphakit Srikantaranon, provincial police superintendent, said the investigation found Mr Samai was a suspect in a bombing in Chiang Mai.
The investigation has progressed significantly and is close to an end, he said.
The bomb disposal unit said the bomb was a high pressure type based on urea fertiliser. The bomber must be a specialist to make it.
However, police believed that the explosion was an accident.
Four people were killed in the incident, and nine people were injured and at least two housing units in the complex were destroyed when the blast occurred at 6.30pm.
The building subsided 5 cm as workers used structural steel to reinforce the building for fear that it could collapse in the aftermath of the powerful blast.
National police chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree told reporters after chairing a meeting of high ranking police on the incident that the Bang Bua Thong apartment bombing is linked to four recent bombing attacks--one near Nang Lerng race track (Royal Turf Club) and others at Santirat Wittayalai school in Bangkok, and parking areas of The Mall Ngamwongwan and the Ministry of Public Health in Nonthaburi.
Mr Samai had joined the rally organised by the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) earlier this year. He rented the room on Sept 23 and stayed with a married couple. (MCOT online news)
