Thai police do not believe Friday's bombings in Bangkok were revenge for the death of a sympathizer of the southern Islamist insurgents. The man died while imprisoned in a Fourth Army Region military camp in the Deep South.
The reports that are circulating about this were denied yesterday by police spokesman Krissana. Earlier reports linked the southern men who left a kind of time bomb at the gate of RTP headquarters and eight suspects who wanted to create chaos in Bangkok over the sympathizer's death. The two men were apprehended Friday in Chumphon on their way back south. The bomb was defused in time.
A source with the investigation team says four suspects took the bus in Hat Yai (Songkhla) on July 31 and got off the next day in Mor Chit. They took a taxi to the Makro in Pathum Thani where they changed clothes and traveled in two groups of two in different taxis.
One group went to the Government Complex on Chaeng Watthana Road and the other group to the office of the Permanent Secretary of Defense at Pak Kret in Nonthaburi. They then traveled back to Hat Yai via Mor Chit on Thursday evening. The bombs exploded at the two locations the next morning. The four suspects spoke a dialect that is spoken in the deep South.
Police said bombs were planted at five locations in Bangkok and Nonthaburi on Friday: one at Chong Nonsi BTS station near Mahanakhorn Tower and two at the government complex on Chaeng Watthana Road and near RTAF headquarters.
On Friday night, police arrested seven students on suspicion of the bombing at soi 57/1 of Rama IX Road, but they deny any involvement.
Source: Bangkok Post