Blast suspect's prints found on bomb equipment: Thai police

The fingerprints of a foreign man arrested over last month's deadly Bangkok blast match those found on bomb-making equipment discovered at a flat over the weekend, Thai police said Sept. 2.

Investigators say the unidentified man was detained on Sept. 1 while trying to cross into Cambodia in a remote and rural border area.
 
He is the second foreigner held over the August 17 blast at a religious shrine which killed 20 people, mostly ethnic Chinese tourists.    

Police are narrowing their search for those behind the bomb, the worst-ever such attack on Thailand.
 
National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told reporters the man's fingerprints were found "on a bottle containing bomb materials found in a room" in the Bangkok suburb of Nong Chok.
 
"We can confirm that this man is directly involved with the bomb material," he added.
 
Police raided a flat in Nong Chok, a suburb on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok, on Aug. 29.    

They arrested another foreign man in possession of bomb-making paraphernalia and dozens of fake Turkish passports.
 
Both are now in military custody.
 
Police have refused to confirm the two men's nationalities. They believe both used fake identity documents and are liasing with embassies to ascertain their true nationalities.
 
But on Sept. 2 a senior officer said the man arrested on Sept. 1 was talking to interrogators through an interpreter.    

"He speaks Turkey's language," incoming Thai police chief General Chaktip Chaijinda told reporters, without specifying whether the language was Turkish or part of the wider Turkic family.
 
Thai media have circulated a picture of a Chinese passport that they say was found on the man...