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This combination of images taken from closed-circuit television footage and released on Feb. 15, 2012 by the Thai police shows three men police suspect were involved in a string of blasts which hit Bangkok on Feb. 14 walking in a street of the Thai capital on the same day.
The Associated Press reports from BANGKOK — Thailand's government was struggling to piece together what a trio of Iranian men were plotting when a cache of explosives detonated by mistake in their home in Bangkok's busy Sukhumvit Road area a day earlier. Bomb disposal teams searched the Iranians' house again Wednesday looking for more evidence, while security forces were searching for an Iranian woman they said had originally rented it.
Two of the men were detained, and Thai immigration police chief Lt. Gen. Wiboon Bangthamai said a third suspect who fled the destroyed house escaped to Malaysia after boarding a flight bound for Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday night. He identified the man as Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, but had no other details.
Police have named the pair in custody as Saeid Moradi, who lost at least one leg in a self-inflicted grenade blast as he tried to flee police, and Mohummad Hazaei, who was detained Tuesday as he tried to board a flight to Malaysia. Read the full story.
Previously on PhotoBlog: Graphic image of bomb blast in Bangkok
Mohammad Hazaei, 42, after he was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok on Feb. 14, 2012.
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The damage caused by a blast at the house where suspected bomber Saeid Moradi was staying in Bangkok on Feb. 15, 2012.