• Relatives of a victim from Shanghai cry as families identify and claim the deceased. Thai authorities identified five victims as Thai and four as Chinese — two of them from Hong Kong — along with two Malaysians and one Singaporean, and said the nationalities of the other eight victims remained unknown. Rungroj Yongrit / EPA
    Relatives of a victim from Shanghai cry as families identify and claim the deceased. Thai authorities identified five victims as Thai and four as Chinese — two of them from Hong Kong — along with two Malaysians and one Singaporean, and said the nationalities of the other eight victims remained unknown. Rungroj Yongrit / EPA
  • Rescue workers with the Ruamkatanyu Foundation walk past the Erawan Hindu shrine. Dario Pignatelli / Bloomberg
    Rescue workers with the Ruamkatanyu Foundation walk past the Erawan Hindu shrine. Dario Pignatelli / Bloomberg
  • The Thai defence minister, meanwhile, said officials had no prior intelligence about Monday’s rush-hour bombing of a popular shrine at a busy intersection. Narong Sangnak / EPA
    The Thai defence minister, meanwhile, said officials had no prior intelligence about Monday’s rush-hour bombing of a popular shrine at a busy intersection. Narong Sangnak / EPA
  • Workers hose down the floor of shrine. Thailand’s prime minister on Tuesday promised that authorities would quickly track down those responsible for the bombing. Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
    Workers hose down the floor of shrine. Thailand’s prime minister on Tuesday promised that authorities would quickly track down those responsible for the bombing. Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
  • A member of military personnel stops the media from taking pictures at the Erawan shrine. Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
    A member of military personnel stops the media from taking pictures at the Erawan shrine. Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
  • Thailand has seen many violent attacks in recent years, particularly through a more-than-decade-long insurgency by Muslim separatists that has left more than 5,000 dead in the country’s south. Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
    Thailand has seen many violent attacks in recent years, particularly through a more-than-decade-long insurgency by Muslim separatists that has left more than 5,000 dead in the country’s south. Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
  • The normally busy intersection that was closed off to traffic and eerily empty aside from onlookers standing behind police tape to take pictures. . Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
    The normally busy intersection that was closed off to traffic and eerily empty aside from onlookers standing behind police tape to take pictures. . Sakchai Lalit / AP Photo
  • Workers clean a statue of Hindu god Brahma. Throngs of tourists come there to pray at all hours, lighting incense and offering flowers purchased from rows of stalls set up on the pavement along the shrine. Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters
    Workers clean a statue of Hindu god Brahma. Throngs of tourists come there to pray at all hours, lighting incense and offering flowers purchased from rows of stalls set up on the pavement along the shrine. Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters

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Thai authorities search for Bangkok bombing clues - in pictures

Rob Gurdebeke

August 18, 2015

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Thailand’s prime minister said Tuesday that authorities had seen ‘some suspects’ in security-camera footage as investigators scour the bomb blast site.

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