'Thailand attack may not be act of intl. terrorism'
Thailand says there is little chance that the deadly bombing in the capital, Bangkok, this week was carried out by an international terrorist group.
“The security agencies… have come to the same preliminary conclusion that the incident is unlikely to be linked to international terrorism,” said military spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree.
Winthai did not elaborate on how the security authorities reached the conclusion, particularly after police said on Tuesday that the main suspect in the attack was a “foreign male.”
The military spokesman added that the four Chinese tourists who had been killed in the Monday evening attack at the Erawan Shrine, a popular tourist site for Chinese tourists, were not the “direct target” in the attack.
The deadly bombing at the shrine in the downtown area of the capital left 20 people dead and more than 120 injured.
National police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang described the explosive device used in the attack as being a pipe bomb wrapped in white cloth. Police had initially described it as a 3-kilogram “improvised device.”
Thailand has been the scene of unrest ever since the junta seized power in a May 2014, following the ouster of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra after months of protests and civil unrest across the country.
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