Large bomb goes off in Bangkok

[Jlaw]

Is there a possibility that the Turkish government is behind it? It seems that the incident is related to Uyghur deportation case.

Almost every current terrorist activities can involve Turkey.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Trail goes cold in hunt for Bangkok shrine bomber

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre1 hour ago

A woman pays her respects at the Erawan shrine, the site of Monday's deadly blast, in central Bangkok, …
By Amy Sawitta Lefevre

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Wednesday they had still not established the nationality or whereabouts of the man they suspect bombed a Bangkok shrine, killing at least 20 people, suggesting the trail had gone cold after he was captured by CCTV at the scene.

Authorities said they were keeping watch for the suspect at the country's borders, but police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang told a news conference that it was not clear how many people were involved in the attack or if they were still in the country.

"I don't suspect one person, I suspect many people," he said. "I am confident that there are Thais involved but I am not saying it is just Thais or that there are foreigners."

On Tuesday, a day after the bombing at the popular Erawan shrine in the heart of Bangkok, grainy closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage was released showing a young man dumping a backpack at the scene and walking away.

The government says the attack was aimed at wrecking the economy, which depends heavily on tourism.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, which according to the latest official toll killed 20 people - more than half of them foreigners from several Asian countries - and wounded more than 120.

Deputy police chief Jaktip Chaijinda said earlier that investigators believed the man on the video resembled a foreigner more than a Thai.

At least two foreigners have been interviewed in connection with the blast, police said.

Jangling nerves in the city on Tuesday, a small explosive was thrown from a bridge towards a river pier, sending a plume of water into the air, but no one was hurt.

A government spokesman initially said there were "patterns" linking the two bombs in that both used the explosive TNT, but police chief Somyot said no direct connection between them had been established.

Police Major General Pornchai Suteerakune, commander of the Institute of Forensic Medicine, said the bodies of almost all those killed at the shrine had wounds inflicted by ball bearings that were packed into the bomb.

The shrine, a blood-spattered scene of charred motorbikes and debris after the blast, was reopened on Wednesday.

NO CLEAR TELL-TALE SIGNS

The footage of the young man with a yellow T-shirt and shaggy dark hair shows him entering the shrine compound with a backpack on, sitting down against a railing and then slipping out of the bag's straps.

He then stands up and walks out apparently holding a mobile phone, leaving the bag by the fence as tourists mill about.

Police spokesman Prawut Thavomsiri said a sketch of the man had been completed and facial recognition technology would be used to try to identify him, but he added that it was possible the suspect was in disguise at the time.

"We believe it is a network and not just one person operating alone. From looking at the CCTV footage we think that the yellow shirt man was maybe operating with one or two other people at the scene," he added, without elaborating.

Prawut had earlier tweeted that police were offering a 1 million baht ($28,100) reward "to whoever can give information that leads to the arrest of the suspect".

Police have not ruled out any group, including elements opposed to the military government, for the attack, though they say it did not match the tactics of Muslim insurgents in the south or 'red shirt' supporters of the previous administration.

"The attack did not bear the hallmarks of either southern Muslim separatists or red-shirt militants," said Angel Rabasa, an expert on Islamist militancy at the RAND Corporation.

"Both groups have carried out terrorist attacks in the past, but not on this scale in terms of loss of life."

He said the attack could be the work of Islamic State, which has been expanding its reach in Southeast Asia, or an al Qaeda-related or independent jihadist group. However, such groups usually claim responsibility for their attacks.

Police said they were also considering the possibility that ethnic Uighurs were behind the bombing.

Thailand forcibly returned 109 Uighurs to China last month.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of members of the Turkic-speaking and largely Muslim minority have fled unrest in China's western Xinjiang region, where hundreds of people have been killed, prompting a crackdown by Chinese authorities. Many Uighurs have traveled through Southeast Asia to Turkey.

The blast comes at a sensitive time for Thailand, which has been riven for a decade by a sometimes-violent struggle for power between political factions in Bangkok.

A parliament hand-picked by a junta that seized power in a 2014 coup is due to vote on a draft constitution next month. Critics say the draft is undemocratic and intended to help the army secure power and curb the influence of elected politicians.

(Writing and additional reporting by John Chalmers; Editing by Alex Richardson)

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The bomb attack that killed 20 people at Bangkok's Erawan shrine on Monday was carried out by a "network", Thailand's chief of police has said.

Police have released a sketch of the main suspect, a man in a yellow T-shirt who was filmed by security cameras leaving a backpack at the shrine.

The Hindu shrine, popular with tourists and Buddhists, reopened on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has described the incident as the worst-ever attack on Thailand.

Thai police chief Somyot Poompanmoung told the Associated Press news agency on Wednesday that the shrine attack was the work of more than one person.

"He didn't do it alone for sure," he said, referring to the main suspect. "It's a network," he added, without giving further information.

He said he was certain that Thai citizens were involved in the bombing, but could not confirm if the bomber was a foreigner or a Thai citizen in disguise.
The prime minister has meanwhile urged the main suspect to surrender to the police because he might otherwise "get killed to stop him from talking".

Mr Prayuth told reporters the man must have been hired to plant the bomb.

The shrine reopened at about 08:00 local time (01:00 GMT), with a handful of people arriving to place flowers or light incense in front of the slightly damaged statue of the Hindu god Brahma.

A BBC reporter at the scene says there appears to be low security in place, with the public free to walk in unchecked. She says the last human remains were only cleared from the site earlier on Wednesday.

The statue of the Hindu god Brahma was slightly damaged in Monday's attack
The BBC's Stephen Evans says the authorities want to "send a signal" by reopening the shrine
Most of the victims of Monday's attack were Thai, but nationals from China, Hong Kong, the UK, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore were among the foreigners killed.

No-one has yet said they carried out the attack.

In a separate attack on Tuesday, an explosive device was thrown at a pier in Bangkok. No-one was hurt, but the authorities have not ruled out a link between the incidents.

Maj Gen Weerachoon Sukhontapatipak, a spokesman in the military government, earlier told the BBC that the authorities were "quite close" to identifying the suspect caught on CCTV at the shrine.

The man is seen carefully removing his backpack inside the shrine - at the spot the bomb went off - then getting up without it and immediately leaving.

Maj Gen Sukhontapatipak said no motive was being ruled out, but that the bomber did not appear to be Thai and the character of the bombing was "quite different" from previous bombings by Islamist separatists in southern Thailand.

Speaking in a television address on Tuesday evening, Mr Prayuth said the attack showed that Thailand "still has a person or a group of people with hostility to the nation operating actively".

"They may be doing it for a political motive or to undermine the economy or tourism or for other reasons," he said, according to the Bangkok Post.

He also warned against speculation on possible perpetrators, saying it could cause panic or mislead the investigation.

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Hmmmm.....it mentions possibility of uygurs as well. Think its possible, as there has been anger among uygurs and turks against thailand deporting Uygurs to China. Plus its unlikely its thailands islamic insurgents or red shirts as analysts said.

Anyway Lets wait and see the end of the invesigation.

RIP to the deaths.

Is there a possibility that the Turkish government is behind it? It seems that the incident is related to Uyghur deportation case.

Highly likely, but if that was the case it wouldnt be the Turkish government per se, but uygurs themselves or muslim extremistsTurks who are sympathetic to their cause helping them firge passports and travel to Turkey. So i dont think the Turkish government will have anything to do with it, just sone of its radical citizens MAYBE, as we are not evwn sure yet if uygurs are responsible, though its likely. Lets wait and see.

 

[saurav]

A Hindu-Budhdhist shrine was the target, surely Martians would have done this...

 

[Lux de Veritas]

Hmmmm.....it mentions possibility of uygurs as well. Think its possible, as there has been anger among uygurs and turks against thailand deporting Uygurs to China. Plus its unlikely its thailands islamic insurgents or red shirts as analysts said.

Anyway Lets wait and see the end of the invesigation.

RIP to the deaths.



Highly likely, but if that was the case it wouldnt be the Turkish government per se, but uygurs themselves or muslim extremistsTurks who are sympathetic to their cause helping them firge passports and travel to Turkey. So i dont think the Turkish government will have anything to do with it, just sone of its radical citizens MAYBE, as we are not evwn sure yet if uygurs are responsible, though its likely. Lets wait and see.

So few PDF PRC jump up and condemn attackers so long as Islamo are the suspected evil doer.

To PDF PRC, any small shit from white man, Japan, SE Asian (including Singaporean Chinese) they will stir stir stir shit.

There are a few crazy mofo PDF PRC even tell SE Asian Chinese that they deserve to die in the hand of Islamo. When Uighur start murdering Chinese, PDF PRC told everyone this has nothing to do with Islam.

And PDF PRC side with Islamo shit that Islam is BIG victim of everyone under the sun. All barbaric act of Islam is freedom fighting.

Lux is here to debunk as such conduct of Islamo and PDF PRC is anti Allah. Lux is a supporter of Allah and Lux will preach good to Islamo and fcuk them for their shit, so that Islamo can improve themselves.

 

[Jlaw]

So few PDF PRC jump up and condemn attackers so long as Islamo are the suspected evil doer.

To PDF PRC, any small shit from white man, Japan, SE Asian (including Singaporean Chinese) they will stir stir stir shit.

There are a few crazy mofo PDF PRC even tell SE Asian Chinese that they deserve to die in the hand of Islamo. When Uighur start murdering Chinese, PDF PRC told everyone this has nothing to do with Islam.

And PDF PRC side with Islamo shit that Islam is BIG victim of everyone under the sun. All barbaric act of Islam is freedom fighting.

Lux is here to debunk as such conduct of Islamo and PDF PRC is anti Allah. Lux is a supporter of Allah and Lux will preach good to Islamo and fcuk them for their shit, so that Islamo can improve themselves.

leave me out. i only like Islam when they cause shit in Europe. Otherwise they are just superstitious fucks like Hindus and christian.

 

[Sonyuke_Songpaisan]

They again.

 

[batmannow]

Do you stay at Nana, bro?

No I don't live at nana !
I am living at phatnakarn road !
@somsak
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So few PDF PRC jump up and condemn attackers so long as Islamo are the suspected evil doer.

To PDF PRC, any small shit from white man, Japan, SE Asian (including Singaporean Chinese) they will stir stir stir shit.

There are a few crazy mofo PDF PRC even tell SE Asian Chinese that they deserve to die in the hand of Islamo. When Uighur start murdering Chinese, PDF PRC told everyone this has nothing to do with Islam.

And PDF PRC side with Islamo shit that Islam is BIG victim of everyone under the sun. All barbaric act of Islam is freedom fighting.

Lux is here to debunk as such conduct of Islamo and PDF PRC is anti Allah. Lux is a supporter of Allah and Lux will preach good to Islamo and fcuk them for their shit, so that Islamo can improve themselves.

What the hell islam has to to with bangkok bombing ?
Come on topic , instead of bringing your stupid thoughts ?

 

[Carlosa]

At least 10 involved in Erawan bombing, some of the Thais, police say

August 20, 2015 4:08 pm

Police spokesman Pol Lt Gen Prawut Thawornsiri on Thursday said those involved in the deadly bomb attack at the Erawan Shrine worked as team, which probably had no fewer than 10 members.
It is believed that they worked on the planned attack for months, Prawut said, adding he is confident that some Thais were involved.

He also referred to the man in a yellow Tshirt captured by CCTV cameras and for whom an arrest warrant has been issued, saying the suspect did not use the Thai language in communicating with the motorcycle taxi driver he hired.

The police are now hunting for two men and a woman captured on the camera standing near the prime suspect for interrogation.

He is confident that the attackers are still in Thailand.

 

[Azizam]

Thai police focus on possible 'Turkish connection' in shrine bombing manhunt - Telegraph

 

[Place Of Space]

Yes, but I think those were Turkish groups with Uighur elements also.



Have to admit that Thailand really messed up sending the Uighurs back to China, that was really a bad move.

In fact, every a country need to learn from Spain. You know, Spain was an Islamic country in the past. We need to learn the solution of returning it to the local.

 

[Beast]

In fact, every a country need to learn from Spain. You know, Spain was an Islamic country in the past. We need to learn the solution of returning it to the local.

Never mind, some particular country spread extremism is having its own medicine by embroiling in terrorist and separative problem with random bombing occur often. This is called Karma. Sooner or later this country economy will be destroyed in no time for support terrorist.

 

[jhungary]

In fact, every a country need to learn from Spain. You know, Spain was an Islamic country in the past. We need to learn the solution of returning it to the local.

Since when was Spain a Muslim Country?

Moor Conquered a part of Spain in 8th Century, set aside the fact that not all of Spain was conquered, Moor itself are not only Muslim, Moor people are half Arab and half Christian

 

[Place Of Space]

Never mind, some particular country spread extremism is having its own medicine by embroiling in terrorist and separative problem with random bombing occur often. This is called Karma. Sooner or later this country economy will be destroyed in no time for support terrorist.

Ahhhhh, Karma is a Buddhism or Hinduism concept. Islam don't believe in Karma. ..Headache.

 

[Styx]

Thai police focus on possible 'Turkish connection' in shrine bombing manhunt - Telegraph

and the net closes in on jihadis.

has to be, it's only those guys who do this kind of shit.

 

[Place Of Space]

Since when was Spain a Muslim Country?

Maybe between 8th century and 15th century, it was not a short period you know.