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Thai woman acquitted in 2015 Erawan shrine bombing that killed 20 people
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Thai woman acquitted in 2015 Erawan shrine bombing that killed 20 people

A Thai court on Thursday cleared a woman of involvement in a 2015 bombing of a popular temple in Bangkok that killed 20 people, most of them tourists.

Wanna Suansan was charged with complicity to murder, attempted murder and illegal possession of explosives in connection with the explosion. Erawan temple In the heart of Bangkok’s main shopping district.

The court in Bangkok ruled there was insufficient evidence against the 36-year-old man and acquitted him of all charges.

Two Uyghur men, the main suspects in the bombing, are still on trial, although their cases have been ongoing for years.

Wanna, originally from the southern province of Phang-Nga, was accused of renting a property and supplying chemicals to the bombers.

However, Wanna was in Turkey with his wife at the time of the explosion and the judge ruled that prosecutors had failed to prove any connection between him and the main suspects.