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Cambodia has no news on Bangkok bombing suspects fleeing to Cambodia

Xinhua, September 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Cambodian Interior Ministry's spokesman Gen. Khieu Sopheak said Tuesday that the country has no report on Bangkok bombing suspects entering Cambodia, a local media reported.

"Cambodia will further look into this matter if Thailand asks us for cooperation, but so far, there is no any official request from the Thai side," he was quoted by well-known news website DAP as saying.

His remarks came after the Bangkok Post of Thailand quoted an unnamed Crime Suppression Division official on Tuesday as saying that Thai police believe that two prime bombing suspects in the Erawan and Sathon pier explosions are hiding in Cambodia and have asked Phnom Penh authorities to hunt them down.

The paper said the unnamed police officer claimed that the two suspected men entered the Cambodian town of Poipet through the Aranyaprathet border checkpoint in Sa Kaeo province.

A bomb exploded at Erawan Shrine, a popular tourist destination in downtown Bangkok, on Aug. 17, leaving 20 people dead and more than 100 others injured.

So far, only a suspected foreigner was arrested along with bomb- making materials allegedly similar to those used in the Aug. 17 bombing at the shrine. Endi