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| Bangkok bomb: Two suspects hand themselves in | Bangkok bomb: Two suspects hand themselves in |
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| Two men identified as suspects in the Bangkok bombing have handed themselves in to police, insisting they are tour guides, authorities say. | Two men identified as suspects in the Bangkok bombing have handed themselves in to police, insisting they are tour guides, authorities say. |
| The pair were seen in security camera footage shortly before Monday's blast at the Erawan Shrine. | The pair were seen in security camera footage shortly before Monday's blast at the Erawan Shrine. |
| The men, in red and white T-shirts, rose from a bench shortly before the main suspect, in yellow, sat down and left behind his backpack. | |
| The attack at the shrine killed 20 people and injured dozens. | The attack at the shrine killed 20 people and injured dozens. |
| Officers are now questioning the pair. | |
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| The police had said that at least 10 people were suspected of involvement in the attack, and that the prime suspect was foreign. | |
| Earlier on Thursday, Col Winthai Suvaree, a spokesman for the ruling military junta, said the preliminary conclusion was that it was "unlikely" the attack was the work of an international terror group. | |
| However, he later told Associated Press that a global terrorism link had not been ruled out, saying: "We still have to investigate in more detail." | |
| The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says police are also questioning a tuk-tuk taxi driver who drove the main suspect to the shrine, but are making slow progress in identifying the name and nationality of the man in yellow. | |
| He adds that, although the shrine has been cleaned up, a BBC team was still able to find bomb shrapnel embedded in a wall nearby, suggesting the forensic teams have not yet collected all possible evidence from the area. | |
| No-one has yet said they carried out the attack. | |
| National police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang said he believed the attack was planned at least a month in advance. | |
| Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has called the bombing the "worst ever attack" on Thailand. | |
| Twelve of the 20 dead in Monday's attack were foreigners, including nationals from China, Hong Kong, the UK, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. | |
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