they, meanwhile, increased the reward for any information leading to the arrest of the man in the yellow shirt. the man they say they are now very sure is the bomber. apart from the early breakthrough when they identified the man they think is the bomber, there s been very little else solid and concrete. they actually ruled out two other suspects they thought were initially accomplices and now saying that the network that was used may be more than ten people. very frustrating for the police, but also very frustrating and worrying for the people of bangkok. andrew stevens, cnn, bangkok. thank you, andrew. what do registered sex offenders and murderers have to do with your commute? the scary background checks of uber. that s next.
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of course, there has been discussion about the insurgency in the south and that is largely always been contained in the south it s never ventured out, certainly not this magnitude in the heart of bangkok. so as to this person and this suspect, as you say, as they discussed the cctv shows him going in wearing a backpack and leaving it there. so by a process of elimination they are saying that they believe this man is connected to this bombing and, rosemary, the place in which he leaves that rucksack, that black backpack is where the bomb went off. it s where it was surrounded by people on both sides. you know, this really is right in the heart of the center of bangkok and represents the heart of bangkok in so many ways, rosemary. it is a religious shrine. yes it s dedicated to a hindu
are looking for a man who was seen on cctv around the time or just before the explosion. they re not saying that he s a suspect. but they say that they are looking for him. we re trying to obviously get more details from the police. but they certainly do say that this man is connected to the bombings in some, some way. but, as we know, this bombing unleashed carnage, and according to the head of police, that is exactly what it was designed to do, create fear, panic, terror in bangkok, which, as we all know, thailand is one of the most popular tourist destinations in asia if not around the world. so really, this has not just shook the city of bangkok, the city of thailand, but for the international tourists who come in the thousands, the tens of thousands. hundreds of thousands. people will seriously be reconsidering traveling to
instability. certainly, military coups. the military came into power in may of last year after so much political unrest. and since that time back in may, it has been relatively peaceful in thailand. there have been a number of bombings, but nothing on this scale. and that is what has really shaken up thailand, job john. what is the security situation? is there some kind of crackdown under way to ensure this doesn t happen again? reporter: yeah, look, obviously, everybody extremely, everyone s on an extreme high alert. security forces have moved in and are fully manning the city of bangkok. obviously searching areas, tourist areas as well. there were reports after this initial bombing that there were other bombs, two other bombs. they brought in sniffer dogs, looked around the shrine and