Second Suspect Arrested in Thai Blast

An Iranian man was seriously wounded in Bangkok on Tuesday when a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew one of his legs off.

Earlier the man had been injured in an explosion at a house he was renting with two others in central Bangkok.

The wounded suspect had thrown a bomb in front of a taxi when the driver refused to pick him up near the site of the first blast.

The taxi driver and five others were wounded.

Police then tried to arrest the man but he attempted to throw another bomb at them.

It went off before he was able to do so, blowing one of his legs off.

A doctor at Chulalongkorn Hospital told reporters the other leg had to be amputated.

Police arrested one of the suspects at the airport.

[Senior Thai Police Official]:              
"Of the two suspects that escaped, we apprehended one of them at the Suvarnabhumi airport. At the moment the man in this picture is still at large."
             
Thailands' National Police chief came to Bangkok to assess the situation.

[Priewpan Damaphong,  Thai National Police Chief]:            
"This case, the target of their(suspect) attack is most likely to be an individual. Because the explosive devices they produced are attached with magnets, they can be attached beneath a car, targeting an individual, not a place. It's very difficult to say which group of individuals are targeted, because our country is a tourist destination."

A police investigation at the bombers house found a cache of C4 explosives and remote-control detonators.