Turkish Man Wanted Over Thai Shrine Bombing

Thai auhorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Turkish man married to a Thai woman already suspected of involvement in last month's bombing of a shrine in Bangkok.

Emrah Davutoglu is wanted in connection with charges of conspiracy to possess "unauthorised war materials".

The latest warrant is the eighth to be issued by Thai authorities over the 17 August bombing in the country's capital in which 20 people were killed and more than 120 wounded.

A senior police official said Davutoglu is believed to have been "part of a network that provided accommodation" to others connected with the bombing.

Police earlier this week issued an arrest warrant for his wife, Wanna Suansan, whose name was on the lease of an apartment raided by police at the weekend, where police found bomb-making materials.

Wanna has told police she is in Turkey and denied any involvement in the bombing.

She was initially reported to have said she would return to Thailand for questioning but then reconsidered, saying she would "have to think about it".

Meanwhile, police said they had arrested a man whose fingerprints match those found on a bottle at the raided flat.

The suspect, who was arrested at Thailand's border with Cambodia, speaks Turkish, a senior police officer said.

There is speculation that the suspect might be part of a group looking to pay back Thailand for its forced repatriation of ethnic Uighurs to China in July.

Uighurs are a Turkic group who are Muslims and related to Turks - Turkey has a large Uighur community.

There is also an indigenous ethnic minority group in China's western Xingjiang region who say they are being oppressed by the Chinese government.

The shrine that was bombed, the Erawan shrine, is popular with Chinese tourists, feeding the idea that it was targeted by Uighur sympathisers.