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BANGKOK : Thailand Friday arrested a man it suspects may have been behind the previous day's car bomb that killed six people and wounded 44 in the insurgency-plagued south, the acting southern army region commander said.
Police arrested Thai national Habeeza Jaeduloh, 30, who they believe fled the scene in the southern border town of Sungai Kolok minutes after the blast by stealing a Thai journalist's car.
"He was the only suspect arrested, and charged with theft after he stole a car but was intercepted," Major General Kwanchart Klaharn told Thai radio.
A military official confirmed the arrest to AFP.
The bombing, in a pickup truck parked in a busy nightlife area, was the deadliest single incident in a campaign of violence that has gripped the Muslim-dominated deep south for the past 13 months and claimed about 600 lives.
Kwanchart said Habeeza, a Sungai Kolok native, aroused further suspicion because his passport showed he had legally left Thailand for Malaysia on February 10 but had no reentry stamp despite appearing at the blast scene.
"As of now he is under interrogation by the military," Kwanchart said.
Malaysia has pledged to cooperate with Thailand in its attempts to quell the rebellion, but says Thai allegations that militants take refuge across the border are not backed by enough detail for the authorities to act on. - AFP
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