Bangkok bombing suspect is ‘Turkish national’, Thai military says

A man arrested in Bangkok in connection with a recent deadly blast at a religious shrine is a Turkish national who was found with multiple passports, a senior military officer said Saturday. Police and military seized the 28-year-old man during a raid at a flat in an eastern suburb of Bangkok on Saturday morning, discovering bomb-making components as well as dozens of passports.

He carries many passports. It’s unusual how he carries so many passports.

Colonel Banphot Phunphien, spokesman of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC)

During a televised press conference national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri declined to say which nation’s passports were found. However as he was speaking, pictures of dozens of Turkish passports wrapped in rubber bands were broadcast as well as the photo passport page of a 28-year-old Turkish national named Adem Karadag.

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