Muscat: The Omani who sustained minor injuries during a deadly bomb blast last Monday outside a Hindu shrine in the Thai capital is still undergoing treatment in one of Bangkok’s hospitals.

Fahad Al Harthi, an Omani pilot in the Oman Air national carrier, was on an official assignment, local media reports said.

He escaped with minor injuries on his back, neck and right ear. The pilot had a narrow escape as he passed the shrine just seconds before the blast took place.

Al Harthi said he was coming out from one of the shopping centres and headed to his hotel nearby the shrine, when the blast took place.

“I fell down on the ground when the blast occurred”, he said.

Later, three Kuwaiti nationals rescued him and took him to Pai hospital in Bangkok.

The cement barrier of one of the subways saved him from the explosion, said Al Harthi, but the shrapnel caused a hole in his right ear.

Abdullah Al Maimani, Oman’s ambassador to Thailand said he talked to Al Harthi personally and also contacted his family in Oman.

Al Maimani confirmed no Omanis were killed in the blast.

Al Harthi, who was summoned by Thai authorities to hear his testimony, will fly home in the coming six days after completing medical treatment.

“The Thai authorities offered compensation, but I rejected it”, he told local media.

Two people from China and one from the Philippines were among those dead, a tourist police officer said. Domestic media said 27 people had been killed, 10 of them men and 17 women.

Police said 78 people were wounded. The media said most of them were from China and Taiwan.

Two blasts reportedly hit Bangkok on Tuesday following the deadly blast on Monday, police reported.

Meanwhile, Thai police said on Wednesday that a suspect, captured by CCTV cameras minutes before a bomb exploded at Bangkok’s Erawan shrine, was a foreigner, and his appearance suggested he might be from Europe or the Middle East.

Police spokesman Prawut Thawornsiri also said investigators were now convinced two other men seen on the grainy video footage were accomplices