THAI police said Monday they were seeking two new suspects — a Thai woman and a foreign man of unknown nationality — in the widening investigation into Bangkok’s deadly bombing two weeks ago.

    In a televised statement, police released a photograph of the woman’s Thai identification card — showing a young woman in a black headscarf — and a sketch of the man whose nationality was unknown.

    The development came after police arrested a man from an apartment in Bangkok’s outskirts Saturday and seized bomb-making equipment that included detonators, ball bearings and a metal pipe believed to be a bomb casing. More bomb-making materials were found in a second apartment during a raid Sunday in a nearby apartment.

    National police spokesman Prawuth Thavornsiri said yesterday the second apartment that was raided, in a neighborhood known as Min Buri, was rented by the Thai woman, who is being sought. They identified the woman as Wanna Suansun and said she was 26 years old.

    He said the man is believed to have lived in the apartment, where police found fertilizer, gun powder, digital clocks and remote-controlled cars whose parts can be used for detonation, among other items, Prawuth said.

    Saturday’s arrest was the first possible breakthrough in the investigation into the Aug. 17 blast at the Erawan Shrine, which killed 20 people, including seven Chinese tourists, and injured more than 120 others.

    (SD-Agencies)