Central World witness describes 'Molotov cocktails'

An electrician working for Zen department store Wednesday told the Criminal Court that he believed he saw a man handing out open energy-drink bottles with cloth sticking out the top to other men in the basement of the mall, just days before Zen and other parts of Central World were burned down.
Daenarcha Raksakul, acting as a prosecution witness, said the incident happened on the night of either May 15 or May 16 last year.
The two defendants in the case, Saichon Paebua, 29, and Pinij Jannarong, 27, also appeared at Bangkok's Southern Criminal Court Wednesday, shackled and looking pensive. They have been detained without bail since their arrests about a month after the May 19 fires.
The two are charged with arson, murder of a man who died of suffocation inside Central World, and violation of the emergency decree. Both are pleading not guilty.
The Nation