BANGKOK, August 18 – RIA Novosti. The terrorist attack in the heart of Bangkok, according to investigators, could be carried out by foreign terrorists, told RIA Novosti senior source in the Directorate of the National Police of Thailand.
In the evening on Monday in Bangkok, there was the bloodiest attack in the history of the city and the country. The official number of people killed on Tuesday night – 20 people, eight of them have not yet been identified. The attack wounded 123 people, more than half of them are in serious condition, many still unconscious.
Foreign trace
“The investigation has confidently can claim that the reason the terrorist attack was a domestic political conflict in Thailand. We have more and more come to the conclusion that the attack was carried out by foreign terrorists, and nothing to do with internal political conflict in our country, “- said the source agency, directly related to the investigation into the explosion in Bangkok .
© AP Photo / Sakchai Lalit
According to him, the original version was considered involvement in the organization of the terrorist attack by Islamic militants, separatists from the southern provinces of the country. However, the composition of the explosive device and application submunitions absolutely not typical for the south of Thailand, where the “homemade bombs from nitrate fertilizers and fuses from the plastic explosives explode every week for nine years,” said the official.
“This bomb is definitely homemade, TNT was used as the main explosive component and steel ball bearing as the main striking element. It is far more typical of the Middle East than the South of Thailand,” – he said.
The bomb was directed action, the source continued. The explosion and dispersal of submunitions were sent away from the Erawan Shrine (three-headed elephant sacred Hindu deity who is worshiped and Buddhists), into the sanctuary, and the crowds on the street, so that the submunitions scattered about the level just above the waist standing person, to inflict the greatest defeat of the internal organs of the victims, he said.
The blow to foreigners
“It is possible that the site was chosen due to the fact that Eravanu love to pray the Chinese coming to Thailand. And among the victims of the terrorist attack most Chinese from China, they are even more than the Thais. Everyone knows that worship Eravanu included in the excursion program virtually all travel agencies, taking in Thailand of Chinese citizens, “- said the expert.
© AP Photo / Sakchai Lalit
According to the source, the attack could be retaliation by Islamic extremists, “we and the Chinese people for the deportation of more than a hundred Uighur refugees to China, which is our the government implemented two months ago. ”
“Then the fact that Thailand lost to China’s demands for the extradition of refugees, illegal migrants, Uighurs came to us after escaping from China and a long trip to Asia, has caused an uproar among Western human rights activists, as well as in the Islamic world, were threats against Thailand by extremists, “- said the source.
The security services did not warn
” We had no warning. No data of our intelligence services – the police, the military, even the National Intelligence Bureau, did not indicate that Bangkok is preparing a large-scale terrorist attack. But this is the first such attack in the history of Bangkok “- said the source agency.
The only suspect
According to the spokesman, were treated with 300 video surveillance cameras from a thousand established by various government and private organizations in the area of Ratchaprasong intersection. One of them, a young man of Middle Eastern documented appearance in sunglasses sitting on a bench near the fence of the sanctuary, and then got up and left. In the picture you can see that after his departure under the bench was an object.
“Unfortunately, the shooting angle was such that we can not identify any of this man, and he may be, and Thais – we have people, almost equivalent to” Middle Eastern appearance “- neither understand he left under the bench thing that could be an explosive device or object lying there until the arrival of the young man, “- said the official.
According to him, now being wanted by motorbike taxi driver who brought the man to the the area to the intersection Ratchaprasong. “This young man is the only suspect, and while we can not accurately say that it is related to the explosion,” – said the source RIA Novosti.
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