As investigations into Tuesday’s bloody terror attack at Riverside take center stage, detectives have unearthed fresh details which points at the direction that some of the Dusit employees could have been compromised by the attackers,
We remember how on Wednesday, one employee of the hotel said that he was spared by the terrorists because he had served them tea. Could it be that there is more that this man did to save himself?
According to detectives, the attackers 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.
So the million dollar question is if these weapons were brought in earlier before the attack. And if so, then who was compromised?
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.
“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.
Two Dusit employees lost their lives in Tuesday’s attack while several were severely injured. Could this attack have been avoided?