BANGKOK— Thai police said Thursday they have cleared two suspects in the bombing of a Bangkok shrine after one of them turned himself in and said he was a tour guide and the other was a Chinese tourist.
National police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri said the two men “were most likely not involved.”
The two men were seen in a security video standing in front of the prime suspect as he removed a backpack and placed it on a bench at the crowded shrine shortly before the blast, and police had believed they were accomplices.
Thai authorities have given confusing statements about the investigation, with a military spokesman saying on Thursday they believe the attack wasn’t the work of international terrorists — a day after police issued an arrest warrant for the prime suspect that described him as a “foreign man.”
