a Thai suspect wanted under an arrest warrant in connection with the Erawan shrine and Sathon pier bombings on Aug 17 and 18 respectively. Police earlier said they could not rule out a political motive behind the blasts because Mr Odd had been linked to two politically-motivated bomb attacks in 2010 and last year. Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Srivara Ransibrahmanakul, who has been promoted to assistant police chief today, said Mr Odd was wanted under an arrest warrant in connection with an explosion in Min Buri district last year, which killed two people allegedly carrying pipe bombs that went off accidentally.Mr Odd was in the same group led by Kasi Ditthanarat, wanted under an arrest warrant linked to the deadly blasts at the Samarn Metta Mansion in 2010, he said. Pol Lt Gen Srivara said he had ordered four police teams to track him down. Pol Maj Gen Chayapol Chatchaidet, commander of Metropolitan Police Division 6, said witnesses said they saw Mr Odd meet Thai female suspect Wanna Suansan at the Maimuna Garden Home apartment in Min Buri, where bomb-making materials were found. That led police to seek his arrest warrant, he said, but no surveillance cameras captured images of him at the time of the shrine blast.Pol Col Manop Sukonthanapat, superintendent of Talad Phlu police station, said Mr Odd has a stepson from his new wife and now the stepson lives in Samut Sakhon's Krathum Baen district.After having a daughter, Mr Odd, his wife and their daughter went to live above a beauty shop in Bangkok's Phaya Thai district. Their daughter was then adopted by an Australian person. She is now about 16.Pol Col Manop said Mr Odd's 80-year-old mother, who is in a nursing home in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district, told investigators who showed her the pictures of Mr Odd that the man is her son.