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Thai blast suspect holds Turkish passport: Police

Friday, September 04, 2015 - 00:41

Thai police say a suspect in the Bangkok blast investigation holds a Turkish passport and spoke three languages during an interrogation in police custody. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).

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ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Thai military transfered a blast investigation suspect into police custody on Friday (September 4) under Article 44 which allows the military to hold anyone within a week without charges. The suspect, later identified as Adem Karadag by the police, was holding a Turkish passport and was arrested on August 29, after police raided an apartment in suburb of Bangkok over the weekend. Police found multiple fake passports and bomb-making materials they said may have been used in the August 17 bombing at a Hindu shrine, the deadliest in the country's history. The 28-year-old foreign suspect had been in Thailand since January last year. Previously, police said he had been held at a military facility on charges of possessing illegal explosives and had admitted the passports were fake. Doctors conducted a health-check on Karadag as part of the transfer process, in front of the media. Forensic tests on two suspects have failed to find a link to the site of Thailand's deadliest bomb attack, police said earlier on Friday, dealing a blow to the investigation. DNA examination of the two foreigners tie them to a stash of explosives found in a Bangkok apartment block, but not to evidence collected at the Hindu Erawan Shrine where 20 people were killed on Aug. 17, police said in a televised announcement.

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Thai blast suspect holds Turkish passport: Police

Friday, September 04, 2015 - 00:41