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| A second foreign suspect has been arrested in connection with the deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine in August, the Thai prime minister has said. | |
| The male suspect was arrested in Sa Kaeo province, east of Bangkok on the border with Cambodia, Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters. | The male suspect was arrested in Sa Kaeo province, east of Bangkok on the border with Cambodia, Prayuth Chan-ocha told reporters. |
| He described the man as "a main suspect". | |
| A foreign man was arrested in Bangkok on Saturday over the blast at Erawan shrine, which killed 20 people. | |
| Bomb-making materials and 10 passports were found at the apartment in Nong Jok on the outskirts of Bangkok, police said. | Bomb-making materials and 10 passports were found at the apartment in Nong Jok on the outskirts of Bangkok, police said. |
| Thai military authorities have been interrogating the 28-year-old man, but they have not yet released his name or nationality. | |
| It is unclear whether either of the two arrested men are the prime suspect, who was seen on a security camera leaving a backpack at the crowded shrine shortly before the bombing on 17 August. | |
| The motive for the bombing - unprecedented in its scale in Thai history - remains a mystery. | |
| Woman 'innocent' | |
| "We have arrested one more, he is not a Thai," Mr Prayuth said in response to journalists' questions about a reported arrest after his weekly cabinet meeting. | |
| Images of the detainee in military custody showed a tall, thin man with trimmed facial hair, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap. | |
| Asked whether he is thought to be the person who planted the bomb, Mr Prayuth replied: "We are interrogating. He is a main suspect and a foreigner." | |
| On Monday, Thai police issued arrest warrants for two suspects - a 26-year-old Thai Muslim woman, Wanna Suansan, and an unnamed foreign man. | |
| However, a woman who claims to be Ms Suansan told a reporter she was living in Turkey and had last been in Thailand three months ago. | However, a woman who claims to be Ms Suansan told a reporter she was living in Turkey and had last been in Thailand three months ago. |
| Speaking to AFP news agency by telephone, the woman said she was living in the central Turkish city of Kayseri with her husband and that she was "shocked" to have been named as a suspect. | Speaking to AFP news agency by telephone, the woman said she was living in the central Turkish city of Kayseri with her husband and that she was "shocked" to have been named as a suspect. |
| Meanwhile, police said they had transferred 16 officers - including senior officers - from their posts in Bangkok districts for negligence. | |
| An additional six immigration officers were transferred from their posts in Sa Kaeo, where Tuesday's arrest took place, reported Reuters news agency. | |
| Police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang said the immigration officers had been transferred because it had emerged that foreigners had been able to enter the country illegally, Reuters quoted him as saying. | |
| The transfers came just a day after the same police chief said he would reward his own men for making the first arrest. |