BANGKOK, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in Thailand sought two more suspects in explosions that injured five people in Bangkok this week, Deputy Police Chief Pansiri Prapawat said Friday.
Victims of one of the blasts Tuesday, which Thai officials said targeted Israeli diplomats, included a suspect who lost his legs.
One of the two additional suspects being sought was identified as a 52-year-old man seen on closed-circuit television leaving a rented house, the Thai News Agency reported.
The chief said witnesses saw the man accompanying an Iranian female, also a suspect, TNA reported.
Thai authorities already held two people, including the wounded person, both reportedly holding Iranian passports. A third suspect was arrested in Malaysia and Thailand planned his extradition. A woman who reportedly rented the home, where bombing devices were found, was also being sought although she might have left the country.
Israel has accused Iran of being involved in the blasts as well as attacks in India and Georgia Monday in which magnetic explosive devices were stuck on Israeli embassy cars. An attack in New Delhi injured the wife of an Israeli diplomat and three others but in the Tbilisi, Georgia, attack, the bomb was discovered and later defused.
Iran has strongly denied the Israeli charges.
Pansiri said four plastic boxes, believed to have been used as containers for the explosive devices, were found in a hotel room where the suspects had stayed.
The first four suspects were identified as Saeid Moradi, 28, who lost his legs, Mohammad Hazaei, 42, who was arrested at Bangkok airport, Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, arrested Wednesday by Malaysian authorities, and Rohani Leila, the woman, TNA reported.
The men have been charged with assembling of explosive devices, possession of explosive devices without permits and causing an explosion injuring other persons, CNN reported.
Doctors at a hospital where the wounded Moradi was taken were quoted as saying his condition was stable although he was on life-support, TNA said.
The Thai National Security Council has said the devices used in the Bangkok blasts were similar to those used in India and Georgia.
In India, officials have not named any person or group connected with the New Delhi attack.
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim organization, said in a televised address from an undisclosed location in Lebanon that his group was not involved in any of the attacks in the three countries, CNN reported.
