Yusufu Mieraili was handed over to the police yesterday by the NCPO. Photo: Royal Thai Police
One
of the two men arrested over last month’s deadly Bangkok bombing has
admitted to a charge of possessing explosives, police said Monday, in
the first confession over the unprecedented attack on Thailand.
Thai police say the suspect, Yusufu Mieraili, was arrested last week near the border with Cambodia.
“We
have informed him of the charge. He acknowledged and confessed to the
charge,” national police spokesperson Prawut Thavornsiri told reporters.
Police
have not revealed his nationality, although he was caught in possession
of a Chinese passport with a birthplace listed as Xinjiang — home to
the country’s oppressed Uighur Muslim minority.
A second
man identified as Adem Karadag has already been charged over the crime
after he was caught in a flat in a Bangkok suburb with bomb-making
paraphernalia and dozens of fake Turkish passports.
Police
have said neither man is thought to have physically planted the bomb on
Aug 17 at a religious shrine in downtown Bangkok that killed 20 people.
But
they are confident the pair are involved in the network blamed for the
attack, which rocked the capital and dented faith in Thailand’s key
tourist sector.
Mystery surrounds the alleged bombers’ motive but speculation has hardened on links to China’s Turkic-speaking Uighur minority.
Thailand
deported scores of Uighur refugees to China early in the summer,
prompting protests in Turkey where some nationalists hold a deep
affinity with the minority group.
Source: Coconuts
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