Blast: Malay police send photos of 2 men to Thailand

Malaysian police have sent to Thai authorities photos of two men, one of whom is suspected to have carried out Thailand’s worst bombing at a Brahma temple here that killed 20 people last month, media report said on Monday.

Besides the prime suspect - a yellow-shirt bomber, the other man could be the blue-shirt man who dropped an explosive into a pier the next day, The Nation paper reported, quoting a Thai security official. Thai security agencies would see if the pictures of the two men detained by Malaysia’s Special Branch Police in Kuala Lumpur match the characteristics of the yellow- and blue-shirt men captured on surveillance footage, police said.

The photos will be shown to the person nabbed last month near the Cambodian border and if he identifies any of the two men as a bomber, the Thai police will seek that person’s extradition for prosecution in Thailand, they said.