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Malaysia arrests 6, links them to blast
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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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 worst ever bombing, that killed 20 people, including 14 foreigners, seven from Hong Kong and China鈥檚 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. 鈥淲e believe that they facilitated the movement of the yellow-shirt man but we cannot confirm since it is an ongoing investigation,鈥 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.
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