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Madani Seyed Mehrded, Rahimi Rad Iraj, a chef at a hotel in Bangkok, and his wife Mahboobh Tasbehi have been detained, a police spokesman said. A computer, a mobile phone and some other objects have been seized from Mehrded's rented apartment. He was tracked down through information from the SIM cards of Saeid Moradi, 28, and Mohammad Khazaei, 42, the first two suspects who were detained immediately after the bombings on February 14.
While Moradi was injured in one blast and is in hospital, Kharzaei was arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport later, the same day as he tried to leave Thailand.
Mehrded had regularly communicated with the two suspects by mobile phone, police claimed and was allegedly waiting for the other suspects in front of the Israeli embassy on February 14. He had entered Thailand on July 27 last year and had overstayed his visa by almost five months, they said, adding that he had lived in the apartment since his arrival and rarely went out or met people.
He survived on food delivered to his room by an Iranian who worked as a chef at a hotel in Soi Nana area, which is also the city's "little middle east"
In another development, deputy police chief Pansiri Prapawat said the police had obtained pictures of a number of people who posted stickers bearing the word "Sejeal" along a road in Klong Toey district, believed to be linked to the bomb suspects. DNA samples collected from some of the stickers are still being tested, he said.
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