Three stories to mention today:
1. Today’s Bangkok Post has this story and photo:
PATTAYA : Officials at the Immigration Department’s Chon Buri office yesterday identified a Thai woman in Pattaya who had escorted the Iranian bomb suspects during their stay in the resort town.
Her account, and photographs taken with her mobile phone, could help authorities confirm whether the suspects know one another.
2. In another story on Thailand’s international airports, the Post says:
Security is being beefed up at the country’s six international airports which could become possible new targets for acts of sabotage following a terror warning by Israel, national police chief Priewpan Damapong says.
Pol Gen Priewpan yesterday told the Transport Ministry to place the international airports, under the Airports of Thailand Plc (AoT), on high alert as Israel has warned terrorists may be targetting them.
A government source said Israel had advised police directly to boost security at airports, based on intelligence reports it had received.
3. And finally, The Nation says a bomb expert in his 50s could be connected to the men:
One of the four Middle East men captured by security cameras during the blasts in Bangkok on Valentine’s Day was suspected to be a bomb expert who passed on his bombmaking skills to the other three, police said yesterday.
And:
According to a source at the national security agency, prior to the first explosion at the suspects’ rented house near Sukhumvit Soi 71, witnesses said they saw an Iranian man in his 50s and 150160cm tall going out of the house with a large luggage case at about 7am.
(Image: Bangkok Post.)