The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into who fired shots, damaging three police buses near the Ratchayothin tunnel, late on Saturday night.

Pol Lt-Gen Pakkapong Pongpetra, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, told the media on Sunday that that bullets, of unspecified caliber, punched holes in each of the windshields of the three buses, but caused no injuries. The buses were about to leave the scene of the protest near the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Road, to take officers back to the Region 1 Border Patrol Police headquarters in Pathum Thani province.

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By Thai PBS World

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