Six people, including a Pakistani and three women, have been detained by Malaysian and Thai authorities as part of their probe into Thailand’s deadliest bombing at a Brahma temple in August that claim
Six people, including a Pakistani and three women, have been detained by Malaysian and Thai authorities as part of their probe into Thailand’s deadliest bombing at a Brahma temple in August that claimed 20 lives. Three suspects — a Pakistani man and two Malaysians — were detained a few days ago, Malaysia’s inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar told a briefing in Kuala Lumpur.
“We are assisting Thai police regarding this probe. We feel these three can assist us in the investigation,” Mr Khalid said. He, however, said that the suspects would not be handed over to Thai police just yet.
Meanwhile, Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Sriwara Rangsipram-anakul led a team of bomb disposal squad, forensic officers and soldiers on Sunday night to search a girls dormitory in Thail-and’s Din Daeng district after receiving information that some tenants living there had links to the August 17 Erawan Shrine blast and the Sathon pier explosion. The police deta-ined three women and seized travel bags and computers for DNA and traces of fingerprints to see whether they matched with the DNA samples of those involved in the bomb attacks.
A police investigation found that three men had brought something to keep in the room and were believed to have fled the country, the source said.
During the search, the three women in the room were taken for questioning at a military camp. A source said that the mother of one of the students had links to a man who carried out the bomb attack at the Sathon pier.
Meanwhile, Thai police said that the man, carrying a Chinese passport in the name Abudureheman Abu-dusataer, left Thailand on August 16 for Bangladesh, departed Dhaka on August 30 and travelled to Istanbul in Turkey as his final destination, via New Delhi and Abu Dhabi.
