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Thai police hunt two bombing suspects after weekend raids

Police probing Thailand’s deadliest bombing issued arrest warrants on Monday for two suspects after a raid on a suburban apartment block uncovered possible bomb-making materials. Police were hunting for 26-year-old Thai woman Wunna Suansan, and a foreign man in his 40s after a weekend search on a property in the Min Buri district uncovered fertilizer, digital watches and an explosives detonator, police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said on TV. That came after a raid on an apartment in the nearby Nong Chok district on Saturday, when police arrested a foreigner and seized explosives and stacks of passports.

We have expanded our search to various residential building after the arrest of one suspect.

Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri

The Aug. 17 attack on a Bangkok Hindu shrine killed 20 people and injured more than 100. Fourteen foreigners, including a British law student, seven from mainland China and Hong Kong, were among those killed in a blast the junta said was intended to cripple an already flagging economy. A picture of the female suspect showed her wearing a hijab. She rented the room occupied by the foreign man, for whom police issued the second arrest warrant, Prawut said. A sketch of the man showed him with short hair and stubble.