Related News
Malaysia arrests 6, links them to blast
Print Edition
Malaysia has arrested six people suspected of being part of a human trafficking network and who may have helped a bomber who killed 20 people at a Bangkok shrine last month escape from Thailand, police said yesterday.
The suspects joined two people already in Malaysian detention who may have helped the bomber, who Thai police said was a foreigner of unknown identity, flee across southern Thailand’s border with Malaysia, police in both countries said.
Four of the six people arrested last week were believed to be Uygur Muslims, who come from China’s far western Xinjiang region, said Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, director of the Malaysian police counter-terrorism unit.
Thai police have made two arrests over the August 17 blast, Thailand’s worst ever bombing, that killed 20 people, including 14 foreigners, seven from Hong Kong and China’s mainland.
The chief suspect is a man in a yellow shirt caught on security camera leaving a backpack at the shrine. He was implicated by a man in Thai detention who admitted to delivering the bag containing the bomb to him.
Ayob said the six were not directly linked to the bombing but to a human-trafficking gang. “We believe that they facilitated the movement of the yellow-shirt man but we cannot confirm since it is an ongoing investigation,” Ayob said.
Thai police have ruled out a political motive linked to the blast, suggesting instead the reason was that a human trafficking gang was angered by a police crackdown.
A Thai police investigator who had just returned from Malaysia confirmed the suspected bomber was not among the latest suspects, who were likely part of the trafficking network.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
