泰国曼谷四面佛爆炸案嫌犯落网 公寓藏炸弹材料

新华网北京8月29日电 据新华社“新华国际”客户端报道,泰国警方29日逮捕了一名男性,怀疑他与四面佛爆炸案相关。

警方表示,该嫌疑犯是在曼谷东部郊区一处出租公寓里被逮捕的,公寓里藏有可以组装成炸弹的材料,与四面佛爆炸案所使用的炸弹类似。

  有报道称,该男子为土耳其人,名为阿德姆·卡拉达。警方正在抓紧确认该男子的身份和更多详细信息。据悉,他从今年7月份起就开始租住在此公寓。

泰国警察总长颂育亲自指挥了此次逮捕行动。

  8月17日在曼谷四面佛发生的爆炸案导致20人死亡,其中包括7名中国人,另有100多人受伤。

此前,警方公示的四面佛嫌疑人为一名“白色阿拉伯人”的照片,在曼谷的公共场所以及网络上广为张贴。同时,警方也在抓捕本月18日沙吞码头发生的未遂爆炸案嫌疑人,据警方表示该嫌疑人为“亚洲面孔”的男性。

  泰国警察总长颂育早些时候否认爆炸案与任何国际恐怖组织有关。(记者李颖、陈家宝)

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Thai police have arrested a suspect in a bombing that killed 20 people and wounded scores more at a shrine in Bangkok this month, authorities said Saturday.

The man, also suspected of involvement in a second blast a day later in Bangkok, was arrested at an apartment in a suburb of Bangkok, police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri said.

However, he is not the man in a yellow T-shirt and dark-framed glasses who was identified from surveillance video as the chief suspect in the bombing, Prawut said.

“The man we have is not the man in the sketch, but we believe he is part of the network which carried out the two bomb incidents,” he said.

Prawut initially said the suspect arrested Saturday was a Turkish national. But he subsequently told CNN: “At first we thought he is Turkish. But we just found out two Turkish passports he is holding are all fake.

“We also found many empty fake passports, also various kinds of evidences.”

Prawut said investigators hunting for clues had “also found the same type of ball bearings in this man’s apartment.”

High ranking police officers, forensic experts and army personnel were all seen outside the building shortly after news of the arrest broke.

The apartment is in the Nong Jok suburb, an area known to house a large Muslim community.

The deadly explosion at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine — a spot popular with tourists and locals — wreaked havoc on August 17. The second blast, which occurred at a pier on the Chao Phraya River that flows through Bangkok, did not cause any casualties.