Interpol-wanted Canadian teacher suspected of sexually abusing young boys in photos posted on Internet was arrested in Thailand, CNN reported Friday.

Christopher Paul Neil was taken into custody early Friday in the town of Nakhon Ratchafima, where he was allegedly attempting to contact underage boys.

Neil had been working as an English teacher in South Korea and flew from Seoul to Bangkok last Thursday, said Interpol that issued a worldwide appeal for information in the case last week.

The alert was issued after 200 images depicting the abuse of 12 boys, which police said were taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, possibly in 2002 and 2003, were posted on the Internet.

The pictures had been digitally altered but police computer specialists have produced identifiable images.

The suspect was identified within three days after the photographs were released, based on tips from five sources on three continents, according to Interpol.

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