Associated Press Writer= BANGKOK (AP) — Thai troops fired bullets and tear gas at anti-government protesters rioting near the U.S. and Japanese embassies in an escalation of violence that turned central Bangkok into a virtual war zone after overnight clashes killed one person. The fighting, which has killed 30 people and injured hundreds since the […]
BANGKOK – Anti-government protesters set fire to a police bus down the street from Japanese and U.S. embassies in central Bangkok after troops fired tear gas Friday in a burst of new violence after nightlong clashes left one person dead. The fighting, which so far has claimed 30 lives and injured hundreds since anti-government Red […]
BANGKOK — Sporadic violence continued in the Thai capital on Friday as protesters challenged soldiers deployed around their encampment and fired homemade rockets at hovering helicopters. Troops and the protesters — the so-called red shirts — confronted each other Friday near the spot where the shooting of an anti-government general by a sniper on Thursday […]
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Thailand’s army had nothing to do with the shooting of an opposition leader in downtown Bangkok, a military spokesman said Friday. The Thursday incident is under investigation, said Col. Sansern Kaewkumnerd, an Army spokesman. Downtown Bangkok’s Lumpini Park turned into a mob atmosphere amid gunshots and explosions Thursday as anti-government protesters […]
Troops fire tear gas at red shirts protesters near Lumpini Bazaar on Rama IV road on Friday at 12.15pm in a first step to disperse the protests. The protesters in the area captured and vandalised two military fire trucks near the bazaar on Thursday night. They ripped the cannon from its moorings and used its […]
Thai security forces and anti-government protesters remained in a stand-off in Bangkok after clashes overnight in which one person died. Shots and bangs were heard overnight as security forces moved to cut power and seal off access to the large protest camp in the city centre. Earlier, a renegade general supporting the protesters was shot […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States Thursday closed its embassy in Bangkok and said it was “very concerned” about the violence between the Thai government and protesters there. “We’re very concerned, we’re watching it (the violence) very closely,” State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, adding the US embassy was closed to the public because […]
A dissident Thai General has been shot and seriously wounded, along with several other people at the site of an anti-government protest in Bangkok. VOA’s Daniel Schearf witnessed the shooting which followed a government threat to seal off the protest area to force weeks-long demonstration to end. Major General Khattiya Sawasdipol was shot in the […]
