Monday, January 12, 2004
Thai bombing suspect says he lied to get wife's attention
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A man who claimed to have planted bombs that exploded at a railway station in southern Thailand last year says he concocted the story to get his estranged wife's attention, a police official said Monday.
Suthee Julatrap told police in southern Songkhla province late Sunday that he was a member of an unidentified terrorist group and had orchestrated the bomb attacks, police Maj. Gen. Santan Chayanond said. Suthee's age was not immediately available. But "after hours of interrogation, he finally admitted that he cooked up the story merely to draw attention from his estranged wife,'' Santan said by telephone. She had threatened to leave him after a fight, prompting him to make the claims. The man told police he was responsible for explosions last year at a railway junction in Hat Yai, 930 kilometers (580 miles) south of Bangkok, where there have been several bomb attacks in recent years, some of them deadly. He will be tried for giving false information to police. If convicted, he could face up to six months in prison. Thai forces are currently scouring the southern provinces for suspects involved in a spate of more recent violent attacks. - APFor the latest news from The AP Wire click here
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