Arrested foreigner is Bangkok bomber: Police

So far 17 people have been charged with colluding in committing premeditated murders and attempted murders and colluding in an explosion that caused deaths, police General Sriwara Rangsipramanakul said.

Meanwhile, the military court has approved warrants for the arrest of 17 suspects linked in the Bangkok blast, police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri said. Investigators said they are convinced that Adem Karadag, or Bilal Muhammed, is the man seen in CCTV images in a yellow T-shirt who left a backpack containing an explosive device at the Erawan Brahma temple shrine here on August 17.

“It is confirmed that Adem is the man in the yellow shirt based on CCTV footage, eyewitness accounts and his own confession,” Prawut said. “After he placed the bomb at the shrine he called a motorbike taxi and changed his shirt at a restroom in (nearby) Lumpini Park,” he said.  The explosion left 20 people dead and more than 100 others injured; many foreign tourists were among the casualties.