Tour guide questioned and cleared over Bangkok bombing
A Thai tour guide, who was captured on CCTV footage just before Monday’s explosion in Bangkok, has been questioned and released.
The local guide, who had been taking a Chinese national on a tour of the Erawan Shrine, had handed himself in to police after being identified as a possible suspect.
The pair were seen in security camera footage shortly before the blast at the Erawan Shrine which killed 20 people and injured dozens more.
Police say both have now been cleared of any involvement.
Wearing red and white T shirts, they were captured on camera standing up from a bench shortly before the main suspect, in yellow, sat down and left behind his backpack.
The main suspect, believed to be a foreign man, has not yet been found but police believe he is still in Thailand.
Col Winthai Suvaree, spokesman for the ruling military junta, said the attack was ‘unlikely’ the work of an international terror group, but said investigations are continuing.
Less than 24 hours later, a second, smaller bomb went off at a Saphan Taksin pier but did not cause any injuries.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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