Malaysia police arrest third suspect in Bangkok blasts

Malaysia: Police say a third Iranian suspect sought after explosive blasts in Bangkok has been arrested in Malaysia. The statement from Malaysian federal police said Masoud Sedaghatzadeh was being investigated for terrorism-related activities linked to the blasts in Thailand’s capital a day earlier. [caption id=“attachment_214563” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“In this combination of images made from surveillance video on Feb 14, 2012, and released by the Spokesman Office of the National Thai Police, three Iranian bomb suspects, identified by police from left, as Saeid Moradi, Mohummad Hazaei and Zedhaghat Zadech Masoud, walk down the middle of a residential street in Bangkok, Thailand, after the first blast at an explosives-filled house where the three were staying. AP”]  [/caption] Spokesman Ramli Yoosuf said police could not give further details about where or how he had been arrested Wednesday or whether Sedaghatzadeh would be extradited. Thailand says the three men tried to flee when explosives detonated by mistake in a home they rented. One man was seriously wounded and another was arrested in Bangkok. Israel says the arrests and attacks elsewhere against its diplomats were evidence of covert Iranian plots. AP