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Thai woman acquitted of 2015 Erawan shrine bombing that killed 20
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Thai woman acquitted of 2015 Erawan shrine bombing that killed 20

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

Wanna Suansan was charged with complicity to murder, attempted murder and possession of an illegal explosive device following the building explosion. Erawan Shrine in the heart of Bangkok’s main shopping district.

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

The main suspects in the attack, two Uighur men, are still on trial, even though their case has dragged on for years.

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

But Wanna was in Turkey with her husband at the time of the explosion, and the judge ruled that prosecutors failed to prove any connection between her and the main suspects.