Bangkok bombing suspect ‘flew to Beijing via Bangladesh’ two weeks after deadly shrine attack
Suspect left Thailand on eve of blast, heading to capital after two weeks in Bangladesh: police
The suspected mastermind of last month's deadly bomb attack in Thailand travelled to Beijing via Bangladesh on a Chinese passport in late August, Bangladeshi police said on Friday.
No group has claimed responsibility for the August 17 attack at a Hindu shrine in Bangkok, which killed 20 people, including seven from mainland China and Hong Kong.
The suspect, Abdusataer Abudureheman, also known as Izan, fled on the eve of the blast to Bangladesh and spent two weeks there, Bangladeshi police said. The man Thai police believe organised the plot is said to have taken a flight from Dhaka to Beijing on August 30, when the capital was under heavy security for the massive military parade.
"We verified the message and found that he came to Dhaka on the Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight NoBG0089 and flew out to Beijing on August 30 on a Jet Airways flight," Bangladeshi police spokesman Nazrul Islam said. "He was travelling on a Chinese passport."
The police were looking for the suspect's hotel in Dhaka.
