Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha appealed for the prime suspect - who has a one million baht (HK$217,700) bounty on his head - to surrender because "he might get killed to stop him from talking".
"If the person wants to be safe, he should turn himself in. Officials will find a legal way to provide him with safety. It's better than living in hiding. It would make his life miserable," Prayuth said, adding the man must have been hired to plant the bomb.
National police chief Somyot Poompanmoung believed the suspect did not work alone. "They work as a network [and] know how to escape. No one person can do this," he said.
The prime suspect might not be a foreigner and could have been wearing a disguise, he said.
But national police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri later said the prime suspect was overheard speaking a foreign language other than English.
“Foreign language, not English also,” Prawut told reporters. He did not elaborate on how police knew which langauge the suspect spoke.
But police said earlier they had interviewed two motorcycle taxi riders near the shrine, one of whom gave a ride to the suspect.
Prawut also gave a description of the suspected ethnicity of the alleged bomber, using the Thai phrase “khaek khao” - a word often used to describe light skinned Muslims from South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East.
"His skin is white and he has a high nose. Whether khaek khao or not I don’t know. But from the footage it looked like that,” he said.
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See how the vile pm tried again to steer opinion towards suspect being non foreign and part of a network?
Even though his subordinates already presented evidence contradicting him.
Asking suspect to surrender for fear of his life?
Dunbfuck for real? As if the bombers would consider haha