Update 2 - Thai Police Arrest Prime Suspect İn Bangkok Bombing

Thailand's junta leader-cum-prime minister announced Tuesday that the main suspect in the Aug. 17 bombing in Bangkok had been apprehended by Thai military while trying to cross the border between the Kingdom and Cambodia.



Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha added that the man was arrested in Sa Kaeo province, and was not a Thai.



In an email to Anadolu Agency on Tuesday, Turkey's Ambassador to Cambodia Ilhan Tug said he had no information regarding the latest developments in the case, but understood that suspects being sought by Thai police in Cambodia were also not Turkish citizens.



Turkey has figured strongly in the investigation, with a man arrested Saturday with suspected bomb making equipment also caught in possession of a batch of forged Turkish passports - one of which carried his image.



Thai authorities are now trying to verify both men's nationalities.



Nation TV claimed the man bore a resemblance to the yellow shirted figure caught on CCTV leaving a bag at the Erawan Shrine minutes before an explosion killed 20 people and injured over 130 others. 



The suspect - wearing a cap, sunglasses and a backpack - was arrested 500 meters from the border.



"The route he was using is not an ordinary route, so soldiers detained him and asked him for details, but the man was not cooperative, so they alerted the police," Major-General Srisak Poonprasit, an officer of the 2nd Infantry division based in the told Khaosod website.



Although Chan-ocha did not directly identify the man as that in the CCTV image, Wassana Nanuam, a Bangkok Post reporter who specializes in security issues, wrote on her twitter account that Chan-ocha had told her that he was that suspect.



Police spokesman General Prawut Thavornsir later told a press conference that "DNA tests were being conducted to determine" if they were one and the same.



"In any case we have no doubt that he is an important person in the network who organized the bombing," he added.



Egged on by reporters, Prawut said his appearance "seems to match the main suspect show by security cameras".



The arrest occurred after Thai police had said they believed two suspects in the bombing – the yellow-shirted man and another man who dropped a bomb in the Chao Phraya river on the same day – were hiding in Cambodia and had sought assistance in arresting them.



Anadolu Agency correspondent Lauren Crothers contributed to this story from Cambodia - Krung Thep