Video
footage has emerged of a key suspect police want to question in connection with
the deadly bomb blast in the Thai capital, Bangkok.
The footage,
from a CCTV camera, shows a man in a yellow shirt leaving a backpack in the
Erawan Hindu shrine.
At least 20
people died in Monday's blast, about half of them foreigners, and more than 120
were injured.
In a
separate attack on Tuesday, an explosive device was thrown at a pier in
Bangkok, but no-one was hurt.
Nationals
from China, Hong Kong, the UK, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore are among the
foreigners killed in the attack.
CCTV footage of a
suspect wanted for questioning
The facts - what
we know so far
The Erawan shrine -
popular with locals and tourists
Still images
of the suspect had already been released.
In the new
footage, he is shown carefully and deliberately removing his backpack inside
the shrine, getting up without it and immediately leaving the scene.
The spot
where he was sitting is precisely where the bomb went off a few minutes later,
says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok.
"There
is a suspect... we are looking for this guy," Prime Minister Prayuth
Chan-ocha told reporters.
Authorities
were "quite close" to identifying the suspect, Thai government
spokesman Maj Gen Weerachon Sukhontapatipak told the BBC, but other leads were
also being pursued.
He said no
motive was being ruled out, but that the bomber did not appear to be Thai and
the character of the bombing was "quite different" from previous
bombings by southern Thai insurgents.
He said
security at transport hubs and tourist sites was being beefed up.
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