Bangkok: Thai authorities were on Wednesday probing possible links between the three explosions on Bangkok on Tuesday and the Monday attack on an Israeli embassy car in Delhi as evidence emerged that "sticky" bomb was used in both the cases.
However, Israel's Ambassador to Thailand Itzhak Shoham was emphatic when he claimed that the three Iranian suspects involved in Tuesday's blasts were part of the same network of assailants who targeted the Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia.
Thailand, which detained two Iranians and charged them with causing explosions and other offences, identified a third Iranian suspect, who has already fled to Malaysia.
Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul told reporters "we cannot say yet if it is a terrorist act but it is similar to the assassination attempt against a diplomat in India."
Twenty-eight-year-old Saerb Moradi, one of the Iranian suspects, set off three blasts in Bangkok on Tuesday, blowing off his own legs while one of his compatriots was arrested when he attempted to flee to Malaysia.
Four locals, including a woman, were also injured in the blasts that occurred outside a school on Soi Sukhumvit 71 Road that branches off a busy multi-lane road in the Thai capital far away from foreign embassies.
Thailand's National Security Council chief Wichean Potephosree was cautious when he said the government has not yet determined if there were any links between the events in Bangkok, New Delhi and Tbilisi.
"We haven't found any links but we are still investigating. We admit there was magnetic component aiming at individuals but the origin of the magnet still has to be investigated," he said.
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