Suspected Erawan shrine bomber Bilal Turk, also known as Adem Karadag, has confirmed he placed a rucksack laden with explosives at the shrine on Aug 17, according to his lawyer. Speaking after a three-hour meeting with Mr Karadag at the 11th Army Circle where he is being held, lawyer Choochart Khanpai said the suspect confessed that he put a rucksack with explosives inside near the fence of the shrine at atchaprasong intersection. Karadag "voluntarily confessed" to being the man seen on cctv wearing a yellow-tee shirt who left a pipebomb at the Erawan Brahma shrine which killed 20 people and injured more than 130 others. Mr Karadag said Abdullah Abdulrahman, another suspect, ordered him to place the backpack there, the lawyer said, adding the suspect did not say why he had to follow the orders of this man. His client told him that he intended to travel through Thailand to Malaysia, the lawyer said.