Bombing in Thailand

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No suspects as of yet though Thai police and military fear ISIS involvement.

According to our news cameras picked up a male suspect leaving the scene. Also they don't mention anything about ISIS as of yet. Just that the authorities suspect foreigners to have been targeted to hurt the tourism industry. They also investigate several leads. Among them the redshirts, who deny being involved in the attack and a group of islamic insurgents on the border of Malaysia. But the minister of defense already made a statement that it doesn't fit their modus operandi either. They're seperatists and don't do attacks on civilians. It is also mentioned that this is not the first attack of this kind. In february two smaller bombs exploded in front of a mall and a car bomb went off in april on the tourist island of Koh Samui. For all these attacks no organisation has claimed responsibility as of yet.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said the man was from the southeast Asian country's northeast, which is the heartland of the anti-military government Red Shirt movement.

That's from the Express

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/5989...-explosion

From the Guardian.

“As for possible motivations as to who may have caused this incident, it is too early to speculate which group may have been responsible for this crime but authorities are following possible leads.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/au...k-in-years

From Al Jazeera.

Thai forces are fighting a low-level Muslim insurgency in the predominantly Buddhist country's south, but those rebels have rarely launched attacks outside their ethnic Malay heartland.

Our correspondent Hay said officials have said the bombing did not "match their tactics".

The country has also been riven for a decade by intense and sometimes violent rivalry between political factions in Bangkok and elsewhere.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/de...25802.html

And CNN

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/17/asia/t...gkok-bomb/

They all tell slightly different stories, but noone claims that the authorities suspect ISIS involvement.