Police set to seek arrest warrants for bombs
Police will ask the Criminal Court tomorrow to issue arrest warrants for suspects behind the New Year's Eve bombs, National Police Assistant Commissioner Lt General Jongrak Juthanont said yesterday.
Jongrak declined to disclose the number of suspects or details about them, saying he would go to the court himself to get the warrants for suspects responsible for the Major Cineplex Ratchyothin bomb. A source at police headquarters said investigators had sought the arrest warrants after examining close-circuit-camera footage that had undergone expert analysis and Canadian photo-enhancing techniques. Meanwhile Lt-Colonel Manas Sukprasert, a suspect in the alleged plot to kill ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra with a car bomb, went to the Crime Suppression Division yesterday to hear two additional charges against him - of conspiring to transport explosives and conspiring to carry weapons in public places. Manas covered his face and refused to comment. On Tuesday, another suspect, Lieutenant Thawatchai Klinchana - arrested on August 24 while driving a car allegedly laden with explosives under the Bang Plat flyover - had to face the same two additional charges. Police had scheduled the third suspect, Colonel Surapol Supradit - alleged to be the buyer of the sedan and a key operative in the alleged attack - to hear the additional charges today.
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