A man suspected to be linked with Bangkok bombing is caught on CCTV
A man wearing a yellow T-shirt and carrying a backpack is seen walking near the Erawan shrine, where a bomb blast killed 22 people on Monday, in Bangkok, Thailand in this handout still image taken from closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage, released by the Thai Police on August 18, 2015. Thai authorities said on Tuesday they were looking for this suspect seen on CCTV footage near the popular shrine where the bomb blast killed 22 people, including nine foreigners from several Asian countries. Reuters/Thai Police/Handout via Reuters

Malaysian police may have identified the suspect bomber responsible for killing 20 people in the Bangkok bomb blast in August.

According to a Thai security official, Malaysian police have sent photographs of two detainees. One of the men is believed to be the “yellow-shirt” man caught on surveillance footage while deliberately leaving a backpack at the Erawan Shrine. The other man is suspected to be the “blue-shirt” who threw a device into the Chao Phraya River. The device blew up harmlessly under Sathorn Pier.

Thai security agencies are now going to check if the men detained by Malaysian authorities in Kuala Lumpur are the ones captured on CCTV footage, Asia One reported. Uniformed police and plainclothes in Malaysia searched several rental rooms and apartments, believed to have belonged to the Bangkok blast suspects, on Saturday at the request of Thai authorities.

According to Malaysian police, the suspects have been sheltered by a human trafficking gang allegedly consisting on two Malaysians and a Pakistani, currently undergoing interrogation. The two suspects were apparently received by two Malaysian men after they had travelled by a boat across the Kolok River. Another Malaysian allegedly took the suspects to Kuala Lumpur.

A man who identified himself as Abdul threatened violence against the Thai Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. An unidentified group tipped off Malaysian Special Branch Police.

Thai authorities will now show the photographs to Yusufu Mieraili who admitted to meeting the bombing suspect and giving him the backpack with explosives used in the attack. If he confirms one of the men in the photograph to be the bomber, Thai police said it would ask for extradition of the person so that he could be prosecuted in Thailand.

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