Poipet International Checkpoint.SA KAEO, June 27 (TNA) -- Two suspects in last week’s bomb attack at the head office of Bhumjaithai Party, a major partner in the coalition government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, have fled to Cambodia, a senior Thai immigration police officer said Sunday.
Pol Lt-Col Benjapol Rodsawas, deputy immigration police chief in the Thai border province of Sa Kaeo, said 42-year-old Varisriya Boonsom, nicknamed Oor, and 41-year-old Korbchai Boonplod, nicknamed Ai, left the country separately last Wednesday, one day after the bombing incident outside the Bhumjaithai Party headquarters on Phaholyothin Road in Bangkok.
Both of them left for Cambodia via the Thai border district of Aranyaprathet, said Col Benjapol.
The Thai Criminal Court last Friday issued arrest warrants for four more suspects, including Mrs Varissriya and Mr Korbchai, alleged to be involved in the bombing incident.
Police allege they planned the attack together.
To date, police have detained three suspects, including Anek Singkhuntod who was seriously wounded in the rambutan pushcart explosion near the Party headquarters. He is being treated in hospital.
As police continue their investigation, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday he had ordered police to find the culprits.
Mr Abhisit said there are still some elements who want to create disturbances in the country while his government is giving an effort to prevent them.
“In practice, it [prevention] cannot be covered 100 per cent but the government will try its best,” Mr Abhisit said.
Thepthai Senpong, spokesman of ruling Democrat Party leader Abhisit, said his party had received intelligence that the party could be the next bombing target.
Democrat Party headquarters was earlier fired on by an assailant using an M79 grenade launcher.
Mr Thepthai said the prime minister in his capacity as the party leader had instructed the authorities to be on alert as another attack could hit the party. (TNA)
Pol Lt-Col Benjapol Rodsawas, deputy immigration police chief in the Thai border province of Sa Kaeo, said 42-year-old Varisriya Boonsom, nicknamed Oor, and 41-year-old Korbchai Boonplod, nicknamed Ai, left the country separately last Wednesday, one day after the bombing incident outside the Bhumjaithai Party headquarters on Phaholyothin Road in Bangkok.
Both of them left for Cambodia via the Thai border district of Aranyaprathet, said Col Benjapol.
The Thai Criminal Court last Friday issued arrest warrants for four more suspects, including Mrs Varissriya and Mr Korbchai, alleged to be involved in the bombing incident.
Police allege they planned the attack together.
To date, police have detained three suspects, including Anek Singkhuntod who was seriously wounded in the rambutan pushcart explosion near the Party headquarters. He is being treated in hospital.
As police continue their investigation, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Sunday he had ordered police to find the culprits.
Mr Abhisit said there are still some elements who want to create disturbances in the country while his government is giving an effort to prevent them.
“In practice, it [prevention] cannot be covered 100 per cent but the government will try its best,” Mr Abhisit said.
Thepthai Senpong, spokesman of ruling Democrat Party leader Abhisit, said his party had received intelligence that the party could be the next bombing target.
Democrat Party headquarters was earlier fired on by an assailant using an M79 grenade launcher.
Mr Thepthai said the prime minister in his capacity as the party leader had instructed the authorities to be on alert as another attack could hit the party. (TNA)
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