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Sunday, August 30, 2015

Thailand Arrests 'Foreign' Man Over Bangkok Shrine Bombing Saturday August 29,2015

Thai authorities arrested a foreign man Saturday August 29,2015 they said had been holed up in a suburban apartment with bomb-making equipment and stacks of passports, the first possible breakthrough in the deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine on August 17,2015

"Our preliminary investigation shows that he is related to both bombings," national police spokesman Prawuth Thavornsiri said in the televised statement, as he showed photographs of the suspect - a young man with short brown hair and a light beard and mustache. Police identified him only as a 28-year-old foreigner, without releasing a name.

All television channels broadcast a televised announcement Saturday evening on the suspect's arrest, which came 12 days after the bombing that authorities have called the deadliest attack in Thailand's modern history.

Police and soldiers raided the apartment in a non-descript concrete building on the outskirts of eastern Bangkok and found bomb-making materials that matched those used in the Aug. 17,2015 blast at the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok, police said

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