Thai police blame red-shirt network for recent Bangkok blasts
Police say network of supporters responsible for small bomb attacks in effort to disrupt kingdom as two men detained in Saturday's incident
Thai police have accused a network of "red-shirt" supporters of the toppled government of trying to destabilise the kingdom after the second small bomb attack to hit Bangkok in recent weeks.
Two men were detained on Saturday night after a brief shoot-out with security forces that followed a grenade attack at the Criminal Court, which caused minor damage to the building's car park but no injuries.
National Police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said they were hunting another man and two women from the same apparent cell. "Based on our investigation they have links with the red-shirts," he said.
His boss, Police General Somyot Poompanmoung, said the blast was carried out by the "same network of people" responsible for twin pipe bombs that exploded last month outside a downtown shopping mall, slightly injuring two people.
That incident was the first major disruption to an uneasy peace imposed under martial law since last May's coup that removed the elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
The red-shirts is a grass-roots political movement that opposes the coup and supports the fallen government of Yingluck - whose family have dominated Thai politics for more than a decade.