MOSCOW, August 18 – RIA Novosti. The identity of the suspect, who arranged the explosion in central Bangkok on Sunday night, probably installed, Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-Ocha.
According to the AFP, in a suicide attack killed 21 people. The number of wounded is 123 people, according to the Interior Ministry.
The agency reports that the authorities have begun proceedings against the suspect, who was captured on video from surveillance cameras near the scene of the accident. “Today there is a suspect who appeared on the video camera, but it’s not for sure. We’re looking for this guy,” – the agency words of the prime minister. He added that the suspect is likely to be a party to “an anti-government group based in the northeast of Thailand”.
The explosion at the Ratchaprasong intersection in the business and tourist center of the Bangkok thundered on Monday at 18.56 local time (14.56 MSK). Home-made radio-controlled bomb, which as the explosive TNT was used, was laid near the fence of the Hindu deity Erawan shrine (holy three-headed elephant) near the shopping center Amarin Plaza and the Grand Hayatt Erawan hotel at a time when the sanctuary was especially a lot of visitors, most among whom were tourists from China, Singapore and Taiwan. Many foreign tourists were injured.
Among the victims, according to police, four foreigners, three Chinese citizens and one citizen of the Philippines.
According to preliminary data from police sources and the Ministry of Sports and Tourism Authority of Thailand received overnight and on Tuesday morning the Russian Embassy in Bangkok, Russians among the victims of the terrorist attack there, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday the head of the consular department of the embassy Vladimir Sasnou.
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