The claim by the country’s police chief is the latest setback to a haphazard investigation in which police and politicians have released contradictory information. Days have passed with few new clues about who planned the country’s deadliest bomb attack in recent history or why.
The national police chief, Somyot Poompanmoung, told reporters that authorities also lacked high-tech equipment used on the popular TV crime series CSI to clarify blurry footage of the suspect, who was seen in grainy video dropping a bag at the scene of the blast minutes before the explosion.
“Have you seen CSI?” Somyot asked reporters. “We don’t have those things.
“The perpetrator was driving away escaping and there are CCTV cameras following him. Sometimes there were 20 cameras on the street but only five worked. Fifteen were broken. For whatever reason, they didn’t work.
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