BANGKOK — Most of those behind a string of bombings in Thai tourist towns are Muslims from the kingdom’s insurgency-plagued southern provinces, the country’s police chief said today. Police chief Chakthip Chaijinda told reporters that investigators believe a group of "more than 20 people" were behind the co-ordinated attacks. Asked whether the suspects were Thai nationals he replied: "They are not Buddhists." That changed on 11-12 August when a string of co-ordinated bomb and arson attacks struck multiple tourist resort towns in Thailand’s south. One arrest warrant has so far been issued for a named suspect over the attacks, a Muslim man from the southern province of Narathiwat.

Source: Viet Nam News August 22, 2016 09:22 UTC