Thai police ‘know who was behind blasts’
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A Thai police officer stands guard at the site where a small bomb exploded in Hua Hin, Thailand, August 12, 2016
Police in Thailand say they have identified the perpetrators of the recent deadly blasts in the country, which left four people dead and over 20 others injured.
“Our investigation is progressing. We know who was behind it,” Piyapan Pingmuang, the Thai deputy police spokesman, said on Sunday without providing further details.
The spokesman said two men have been arrested and are being questioned over the multiple explosions, which occurred in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin on August 12, with a third individual questioned over a suspected arson attack in the country’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat.
He did not reveal the names of those detained or reveal their possible motive.
Some analysts in Thailand claim that the blasts are most likely connected to the country’s insurgency in southern regions, which has pitted rebels against the government.
The insurgency has claimed the lives of more than 6,500 people in the past decade but rarely hits international headlines and falls on the sidelines of Thailand’s core political crisis.
The recent blasts came days after voters in Thailand overwhelmingly approved a junta-proposed constitution in a referendum that would lay the foundation for a government influenced by the military.
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