Update | Thai Muslim man is third Bangkok blast suspect detained by police as two arrested foreigners identified for first time

Thailand's junta has for the first time named two foreign suspects and arrested a third man linked to the deadly Bangkok Erawan Shrine bombing that killed 20 people, reports said today.

The foreign suspects were identified as Adem Karadag and Yusufu Mieraili. The identification of the former had been complicated by the existence of fake passports at the scene of a police raid.

According to Thai media reports, Mieraili is a 25-year-old Chinese national from Xinjiang - a vast region in China's far west that is home to millions of ethnic Turkic-speaking Uygurs (pronounced "wee-gurs").

Asked about speculation that Mieraili is a Uygur, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said: “We are in close communication with the Thai side. The Chinese side will closely follow the development of the case. We believe that whoever carried out such a crime should be dealt with according to law.”

A third suspect, identified as Kamarudeng Saho, 38, was arrested by police in Narathiwat, a southern province of Thailand.