Bangkok - Bangkok’s Erawan shrine reopened to the public on Wednesday, two days after a deadly bombing left 20 dead.
Police officials at the shrine said that the Brahmin statue worshipped at the site had only suffered “minor damage.”
Garland vendors and other small traders have returned around the site.
The casualty figures from Monday’s deadly attack stood at 20 dead and 123 injured according to the Erawan Medical Centre.
The centre said that 12 people died at the site of the bombing while 8 more died in hospital. Many among the dead were foreign tourists including a British national living in Hong Kong.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was “deeply saddened” by news that a British woman resident in Hong Kong was among those killed in Bangkok.
“My thoughts are with her family and all those affected,” Cameron said on Twitter.
Thai Police have narrowed their search to a suspect seen on closed-circuit video before the blast.
The suspect carried a black backpack into the site of the bombing before the blast and a was seen leaving without the package.
Police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri told reporters late Tuesday that the person in the CCTV footage was a major suspect.
Prawut added that a separate attempted bombing at a busy Bangkok pier on Tuesday was linked to Monday’s blast because forensics teams found similarities between the bombs.
AFP