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Police hunting those responsible for Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested a second foreign suspect on Tuesday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said.
Thailand’s prime minister described him as the main person in the bombing but did not directly say he is the person suspected of actually planting the bomb at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago that killed 20 people.

Television footage of the suspect showed a thin man in a baseball cap, sunglasses and with a short moustache.
“We have arrested one more, he is not a Thai,” Prayuth told reporters after a weekly cabinet meeting. He did not elaborate.
Thai media later reported that the suspect arrested today is a 25-year-old Chinese national from Xinjiang, who holds a passport in name of Yusufu Mieraili. 

The arrest came after security forces detained a first foreign suspect in weekend raids on the outskirts of Bangkok, in which they also found explosives.
The August 17 attack on a Bangkok Hindu shrine killed 20 people and injured more than 100. Fourteen foreigners were among those killed in a blast the military government said was aimed at dealing a blow to an already ailing economy.
Police said they had transferred 22 officers from their posts for negligence. The transfers came just a day after the police chief promised a reward to investigators for making the first arrest.
Six of the 22 were immigration officers from Sa Kaeo, while the others worked in the Bangkok districts where the security forces conducted the weekend raids.
Thai police chief Somyot Pumpanmuang said he transferred the immigration officers because foreigners had been able to enter Thailand illegally in Sa Kaeo.
“That was my decision,” he said. “I think that when a foreigner is able to illegally enter Thailand without proper scrutiny... I think those officers should be transferred.”
Police have been criticised for an erratic investigation, which had made little progress until the weekend. Police issued arrest warrants for a Thai woman and a foreign man on Monday.
The woman, Wanna Suansuant, has contacted authorities and would meet police, Somyot said on Tuesday. He gave no details.
Her family told police on Monday she travelled to Turkey to work with her partner and child two to three months ago.
Police have been looking into a possible Turkish connection. Fake Turkish passports were seized and police requested a Turkish translator to assist in questioning the 28-year-old man they arrested on Saturday.
The authorities have not confirmed his identity or nationality. He is charged with possessing illegal explosives.
Speculation has centred on sympathisers of Uygur Muslims, opponents of the government, southern ethnic Malay rebels and foreign extremists, among other groups.
Thailand drew international outrage in July when it forcibly repatriated more than 100 Uygurs to China.
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Thailand’s prime minister on Tuesday said authorities have arrested a man they believe is the main suspect in a bombing at a shrine in central Bangkok two weeks ago that killed 20 people.


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