THAILAND: Thai police have issued an arrest warrant for more suspects of New Year's Eve bomb in Bangkok

Record ID: 356623

  • Title: THAILAND: Thai police have issued an arrest warrant for more suspects of New Year's Eve bomb in Bangkok
  • Date: 22nd March 2007
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) ACTING NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF POLICE GENERAL SEREEPISUT TAEMEEYAVES SAYING: "The court has approved (arrest warrants) for two more suspects. For three other suspects, we have to find more evidence but for these two, we put the suspects under surveillance to find out where they are staying. We will find more evidence so we are 100 percent sure before annou
  • Embargoed: 6th April 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Thailand
  • Country: Thailand
  • Topics: Police
  • Reuters ID: LVAA0LO1TMI0MKKIW1JZ37XDUT8F
  • Story Text: Thai police have issued arrest warrants for more suspects of the New Year's Eve bomb attacks in Bangkok as the suspects were caught on a security video camera, police said on Thursday (March 22).
    The investigation team led by Acting National Police Chief Police General Sereepisut Taemeeyaves told reporters after the meeting that they issued a warrant for four bomber suspects which believed to be involved in nine bombings in Bangkok which killed 3 people and injured nearly 30 on New Year's Eve.
    The police have shown the footage which recorded by security video camera where a man carried a bag and dropped in rubbish bin in front of a McDonald's at Major Cineplex before the bomb blasted.
    Police had earlier issued two separate warrants including a man showing on CCTV at Major cineplex and other suspect sought for involving in blast at other location in the Thai capital.
    The police also issued arrest warrants for two more suspects linked to a spate of bloody bomb blasts at the Seacon Square Shopping Mall in eastern Bangkok where one of at least 9 bombs went off almost simultaneously on Dec.
    The two wanted Thai men were caught by a close circuit TV camera walking in the mall. But the police said there are another three women involved for the bomb at the Seacon Square Shopping Mall as well.
    Sereepisut declined to identify the suspects before their arrests.
    "The court has approved (arrest warrants) for two more suspects. For three other suspects, we have to find more evidence but for these two, we put the suspects under surveillance to find out where they are staying. We will find more evidence so we are 100 percent sure before announcing their names. But we have their names now," said Acting National Police Chief Police General Sereepisut Taemeeyaves.
    The police chief said it was premature to determine whether the New Year's Eve blasts were linked to growing bloody violence in Thailand's far south where almost daily killings had taken place in recent months.
    In the immediate aftermath of the blasts, the army-installed government ruled out militants from the far south, where 2,000 people have died in a three-year separatist campaign of shootings and bombings.
    Instead, they inferred that Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a September 19 military coup, or elements in the police and army still loyal to him were behind the attacks.
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