3 expats held for embassy blast

3 expats held for embassy blast

BANGKOK (AFP): Thai police said on Thursday they had arrested two American citizens and a Vietnamese in connection with Tuesday's bomb attack on the Vietnamese embassy which was allegedly carried out by an armed opposition group.

"All of the bombers are in the Free Vietnam Movement and are American citizens," police Lt. Gen. Chatt Kuldiloke told reporters, adding that the three were ethnic Vietnamese.

A United States embassy official said the mission had not yet been notified of any arrests of American citizens in connection with the case.

"We have not been informed that any American citizens have been arrested," she said, adding that if Americans had been arrested, Thai authorities had 48 hours to let the embassy know.

Late last month 37 people were jailed for up to 20 years in Ho Chi Minh City for a wave of abortive sabotage attacks said to have been organized by the Free Vietnam Movement from Thai and Cambodian territory.