Was it an Inside Job? Dusit D2 Employees on the Spotlight as Police Dig Deep For More Evidence

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Planning of a terrorist attack is not a one day affair and it in fact does not involve a single party. Details have emerged that the planning of the Dusit D2 attack could have taken sometime and might have even involved a number of employees at the complex.

This is after it emerged that the six armed men who attacked DusitD2 Hotel and office complex had stocked extra weapons in a room within the hotel.

Police officers discovered a stockpile of grenades and rounds of ammunition in a bulletproof room where the commander of the team was hiding before he was killed.

“It took us very long to break into the room because the armoured door was very difficult to break. When we finally did, the commander, who was the last person to be killed, had so many grenades and rounds of ammunition in the room,” said a senior police officer who was part of the operation.

Investigators are now probing the possibility that hotel employees could have facilitated the attackers before Tuesday. While some of the grenades and rounds of ammunition were on the floor, many more were found in different drawers wrapped up in hotel laundry bags.

Police believe the deadly weapons, several rounds of magazines and bombs, may have been brought into the hotel earlier.

“We suspect an inside job considering these people had been frequenting the place as they schemed the attack,” said another officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not the official police spokesperson.

The officers who battled the terrorists said their commander was well trained and seemed to understand the hotel very well.

“The five attackers had a lot of ammunition and their commander was very well trained. He gave us a difficult time and when he hid in the armoured room, that slowed us down as well,” another officer said.

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