A key suspect in last month’s bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey.
According to AP, he departed Dhaka on Aug. 30 for Delhi by Jet Airways. In Delhi, he continued his travel to Abu Dhabi, and from Abu Dhabi he boarded Jet Airways partner airline Etihad Airways to travel on Aug. 31 to Istanbul.
According to Thai police raises another indication that the attack could be the work of members of China’s ethnic Uighur minority who have sympathizers in Turkey.
Police had previously said the man, carrying a Chinese passport in the name Abudureheman Abudusataer, may have directed the Aug. 17 bombing of the Erawan Shrine. Investigations revealed that he left Thailand on Aug. 16 for Bangladesh, and police speculated that he might have gone to China.
However, national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said that information gathered by Thai police and Bangladeshi officials showed that the man departed Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, on Aug. 30 and traveled to Istanbul in Turkey as his final destination, via New Delhi and Abu Dhabi.
