Police offer reward for Bangkok bomb suspects

Thai police are offering a reward for information on bombing suspects who dressed in a yellow T-shirt captured by a security camera putting his backpack under a bench at the Erawan Shrine and leaving the scene shortly before the deadly bomb exploded on Monday night.

Police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri says in a tweet that 1 million baht — equivalent to $28,080 — is being offered for any word on bomber or bombers suspected of planting the explosive device that went off at a downtown shrine on a busy Monday evening, killing 20 people and wounding nearly 130 others.

According to Nation Multimedia, A motorcycle taxi man working on Soi Mahatlekluang, nearby, told police that the suspect hired him for a drop to the mouth of Silom Soi 9, after which the man walked into the soi.

In the footage, the suspect dressed in a yellow T-shirt with curly hair was seen carrying a backpack and walking into the shrine compound at 6.53pm. He sat on a bench, put the backpack underneath it, before standing up to take photographs. He was then seen walking out of the area into Ratchadamri Road without his backpack at 6.57pm. The bomb exploded one minute later.

Police say they believe he wasn't acting alone.