The authorities’ efforts to go after former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra have hit a stumbling block, as Interpol has not yet confirmed to the Thai police whether it has managed to identify her whereabouts.

Troops and Pathum Thani police seized a cache of weapons when they jointly launched a raid on a house once occupied by fugitive red-shirt leader Wutthipong Kachathamkhun, alias Ko Tee, yesterday morning.