Authorities searched a female dormitory in the Din Daeng area on Sunday and took three women in for questioning as the hunt continues for more clues to the Erawan Shrine and Sathon pier bomb blasts.
Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Sriwara Rangsipramanakul led a team of bomb disposal police, forensic officers and soldiers in the search of Oud dormitory in Din Daeng district of Bangkok on Sunday following a raid on an apartment in Phra Khanong on Friday night.
Authorities have obtained information that some tenants at the Din Daeng dormitory had links to the Aug 17 Erawan shrine blast and the Sathon pier explosion.
The four-story female dormitory has 24 rooms. Officers searched room No 104 and seized travel bags and computers for DNA examination and traces of fingerprints to see whether they matched DNA samples of those involved in the bomb attacks.
A source said two university students rented the room. Two months ago, a mother of one of the two students had reportedly brought a middle-aged woman to stay in the room by claiming that she was her friend.
A police investigation found that three men had brought something to keep in the room and they were believed to have fled the country, said the source. Authorities are hunting the men suspected of involvement in the two bomb blasts.
During the search, three women found in the room were taken for questioning at a military camp. The search, which took about one hour, did not find any chemicals for bomb making.
Pol Lt Gen Sriwara said suspects connected to the bombing did not stay in the room, but they came to the room and asked the tenants to hold on to their personal belongings.
The MPB chief said the three women were taken by soldiers for interrogation and they would be asked to help officers make sketches of the persons who brought their belongings to the room.
A source said the mother of one of the students had links to a man wearing a blue T-shirt who carried out the bomb attack at Sathon pier. The woman reportedly arranged a taxi for the man to the pier and she also went to the mansion in Phra Khanong area to bring belongings from the room there to the Din Daeng dormitory.
