HAT YAI, Thailand, April 3 (UPI) -- The Songkhla, Thailand, governor offered a reward Tuesday for information leading to the arrest of two suspects in a hotel car bombing that killed three people.
Gov. Kritsada Boonrat announced the bounty of about $16,240 for each of the two suspects in Saturday's bombing at Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel in Hat Yai, which also injured more than 350 tourists and shoppers, MCOT reported.
Kritsada said the two suspects have been identified from closed-circuit television footage.
The car containing the bomb was believed to have exploded in the hotel's parking garage, the Bangkok Post reported.
Thawee Sodsong, secretary-general of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center, said an insurgent group suspected in the attack was believed to have been behind a deadly Hat Yai airport bombing in 2005.
In the wake of Saturday's bombing, security is being tightened at Hat Yai's airport as well as at train stations, bus terminals and shopping centers, a source in Provincial Police Region 9 told the Post.
Meantime, more than 40 percent of bookings that had been made for Hat Yai hotels April 6-8 were canceled after the bomb blast, said Prapas Inthanaprasat, Hat Yai director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
