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a second foreigner over the deadly bombing at Bangkok's Erawan shrine, describing the man as a 'main suspect'.
The suspect is the second foreigner to be held over the bombing of the Erawan shrine after Adem Karadag was detained at an apartment in Bangkok on Saturday.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said the latest man to be held was captured in Sa Kaeo province, which is east of Bangkok on the border with Cambodia.
He said he is the main suspect wanted over the 17 August attack that left 20 people dead, but did not say whether he is suspected of actually planting the bomb.
Mr Prayuth said: 'We have arrested one more, he is not a Thai.'
It follows the release on Monday of a picture of a man named as Jusuf wanted in connection with the 17 August attack that left 20 people dead.
A 26-year-old Thai woman named as Wanna Suansun is also being sought over the blast.
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National police front man Prawuth Thavornsiri said he was certain the pair was part of a group police say were responsible for the kaboom.
During a televised statement, Mr Prawuth showed a photograph of the woman's Thai identification card showing a young woman wearing a black headscarf, and a sketch of the man.
He added police were asking for more arrest warrants to be issued.
Thai police said the man named as Adem Karadeg was held on initial charges of possessing illegal explosives.
| An Nahar adds: |
Arrest warrants have been issued for several people including three unnamed males. The only named warrant is for a 26-year-old Thai Muslim woman called Wanna Suansan. Police say she rented a separate flat also in the city suburbs where bomb-making equipment was also found. They issued a sketch on Monday of an unknown male suspect believed to have rented the flat.
Thai authorities confirmed Tuesday that Wanna is overseas but refused to say in which country.
Late Monday AFP tracked down her number and a woman answering that name took the phone call, saying she was living in the Turkish city of Kayseri with her husband whose nationality she did not state. The number was for a Turkish mobile phone.
In her phone interview Wanna denied involvement in the blast, saying she had not visited the flat where the bomb-making equipment was found for around a year. Instead, she said it had been rented to a friend of her husband.
National police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told reporters Tuesday that officers had searched her parents' home in the southern province of Phang Nga.