NARATHIWAT: Thai police have arrested four suspects in connection with a series of devastating bomb blasts in the insurgency-plagued deep south, an official said Thursday.
The car bombings in two southern cities on Saturday killed 15 people and wounded hundreds more in the deadliest attacks in the region in recent years.
Three suspects were detained on Wednesday evening at a house in Rueso district of Narathiwat province in an operation involving 50 police and paramilitaries, authorities said.
A stolen pick-up truck which was used in the attack in the city of Yala was earlier seen in front of the house of one of the suspects, said Colonel Satarnfa Wamasing of Rueso district police.
He said the licence plate of the truck was also put on a stolen car used in an attack on a hotel in the city of Hat Yai on Saturday.
"They still deny it but we have evidence that they met to plot the attacks," Satarnfa told AFP on telephone, adding that police were investigating records of their phone calls.
"There are more people involved but I can't say how many," he added.
One of the suspects is a Muslim cleric with nine outstanding arrest warrants, Satarnfa said.
The fourth suspect, who was arrested at his home in Yala province on Wednesday, was filmed by a security camera riding a motorcycle to pick up the driver of one of the vehicles used in the twin blasts in Yala, police said.
He also denies involvement.
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