Bangkok Shrine Bomber Says Was Hired to Carry Out Terrorist Attack

Adem Karadag, who carried out a deadly blast in Bangkok in August, told his lawyer he had been hired by another suspect to conduct the attack, local media reported Friday.

BANGKOK (Sputnik) — Twenty people, mainly foreign tourists, were killed and 125 others were injured as the result of an attack on August 17 on the Erawan Shrine, a Hindu site in central Bangkok.

According to Choochart Khanpai, Karadag's lawyer, as quoted by the local Khaosod newspaper, his client had agreed to bomb the Erawan Shrine after Abdullah Abdulrahman, another Uighur national from China, promised him a passage to Turkey where his family lives.

The lawyer added that Karadag, who traveled from China to Thailand in hope of reaching Turkey as his final destination, was not aware of the motive behind the deadly blast as Abdulrahman refused to answer his question why the shrine was the target of the terrorist attack.

Police believe that Abdulrahman has already left Thailand and currently is in Turkey.