Police investigating the Bangkok bomb blast have released CCTV footage of a suspect reportedly spotted placing a bag at the scene moments before the devastating explosion. The bomb ripped through a crowd of worshippers at a Hindu shrine, killing at least 22 people in what has been described by Thailand's junta leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha as the 'worst ever attack' on the kingdom.
Chilling images show the man carrying a rucksack in the popular Ratchaprasong district of the capital then leaving the area without it around 15 minutes before the blast. Prayut said the suspect, who was wearing a yellow T-shirt and thick-rimmed glasses, was believed to be from Thailand's north-east – the heartland of the kingdom's anti-coup Red Shirt movement.
'Today we have seen the CCTV footage, we saw some suspects, but it wasn't clear,' Prayut said. 'We have to find them first.' He also said he believed Facebook messages apparently warning of an imminent danger to Bangkok ahead of the bomb came from an 'anti-government group' based in that area.
'We are looking for them now, some of them are in Isaan (northeastern Thailand),' he added. Later, Prayut gave his first televised address since the bombing, saying the government will expedite 'all investigative efforts to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice,' but providing nothing specific about suspects or the status of the investigation.
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