BANGKOK — Thai investigators believe a man seen in security video wearing a yellow T-shirt and carrying a backpack set off the bomb at a central Bangkok shrine on Monday that killed 20 people and injured more than 100, police say.
“The yellow shirt guy is not just the suspect. He is the bomber,” police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri tells The Associated Press.
This Aug. 17, 2015, image, released by Royal Thai Police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri shows a man wearing a yellow T-shirt near the Erawan Shrine before an explosion occurred in Bangkok, Thailand. (Royal Thai Police via AP)
Prawut earlier released several photos of the man, with and without the backpack, on social media. The images are apparently taken from closed-circuit video at the Erawan Shrine on Monday evening before the bomb exploded. He confirms that the man is suspected in the bombing.
A video posted separately on Thai media appears to show the same man, with youthful shaggy dark hair, sitting on a bench at the crowded shrine, then taking off the backpack and leaving it behind as he walks away.
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