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Police investigating Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested a foreigner they said matched the description of a man who left a bag at the crowded site of a blast in Bangkok nearly two weeks ago. Nathan Frandino reports.
Nitpickers jumped on the chance to mock PM Prayut Chan-ocha when he said on Wednesday that he would like to use the magic bullet of Section 44 to ban the word “grassroots”, rakya in Thai, because the term only caused splits in our egalitarian post-coup utopia.
Thai authorities have tripled to $85,000 a reward for information leading to the arrest of the main suspect in the Bangkok shrine bombing that killed 20 people at one of the city’s top tourist attractions.
Thailand circulates description of “foreign” chief suspect to Interpol for manhunt but says that attack not believed to be linked to international terrorist group.
Thailand’s capital city was rocked by a bomb blast for a second day Tuesday while the manhunt intensified for a suspect in Monday’s explosion that killed 20 people and wounded more than 100.
Following 22 deaths and 123 injuries, the bomb blast at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine is likely to add pressure to Thailand’s already tense political situation.