Thai police quiz Uighur trio over Bangkok blast

Thai police on Friday said three Uighur Muslims, among dozens detained in the kingdom for illegal entry last year, have been questioned over the Bangkok bombing.

Eleven days on from the bombing at Erawan shrine, which killed 20 people and wounded scores more, authorities are hunting for a prime suspect who police describe as a foreign man. No arrests have been made, despite the circulation of grainy CCTV footage of the lead suspect.

Security analysts have speculated that China’s ethnic Uighur minority –or their co-religious sympathisers –may have been behind the attack, motivated by Thailand’s forced repatriation of more than 100 Uighur refugees last month to an uncertain fate in China.

“Police in (eastern) Sa Kaeo province have questioned three Uighurs,” national police chief General Somyot Poompanmoung said.