By Prashanth Parameswaran
Detained suspects disclose details about bomb plots following grenade attack.
Two men arrested following a grenade attack over the weekend in Thailand reportedly told police that the “Red Shirt” supporters of the toppled government of former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra were planning more bomb attacks on up to 100 targets in Bangkok, a security official said.
The two men were detained Saturday night after the grenade attack at the Criminal Court, which caused minor damage to the car park but no injuries. It was the second bomb blast to rock the country’s capital following Yingluck’s impeachment, with the first occurring last month when twin pipe bombs exploded outside the Siam Paragon shopping mall, injuring two people (The Diplomat reported on that incident here).
According to the Thai newspaper The Nation, the official said that the two detained suspects – Yuttana Yenpinyo and Mahahin Khuntong – had revealed that a network of “Red Shirts” had been planning a string of attacks against the current ruling junta, which took over the country following a coup in May 2014.
Yuttana said he was a member of a red-shirt group that communicated on a social network called Line, where they discussed a plot to bomb at least 100 places in the nation’s capital. Mahahin said that the targets included military armories in Chiang Mai and in the Northeast, university campuses and a temple.
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