BANGKOK: Thai police said Monday that domestic politics could have been a factor in last month’s deadly Bangkok blast as they revealed one local suspect was linked to previous bombings in the kingdom.

Mystery still surrounds the motive for the August 17 attack on a religious shrine in a busy shopping district that killed 20 people, the majority of them ethnic Chinese tourists.

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