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Deputy PM Suthep waits for Red Shirt decision to end protest Monday
BANGKOK, May09 (TNA) -- Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thauguban set a Monday deadline for an actionable response from the anti-government protesters whether they will end the protest at Ratchaprasong and join the reconciliation plan proposed by the Prime Minister.
Asked about the Prime Minister’s comment that Army Specialist Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol opposed the reconciliation plan, Mr Suthep said that the prime minister spoke clearly on that and told the media to wait and see if legal action will be taken decisively after the deadline for the anti-government protesters to end the protest at Ratchaprasong on May 10.
The country's police are gathering evidence on the weekend shooting and grenade attacks at Silom Road and Sala Daeng to take legal action against the perpetrators.The Royal Thai Police Bureau is expected to later report on the investigation to the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES), said Mr Suthep.
Acting National Police Chief Pol Gen Pateep Tanprasert warned that those who carried out the attacks may strike again as the police investigation into the weekend violence continues. Gen Pateep said more police reinforcements have been added in the Silom-Sala Daeng area to prevent any further violent incidents.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva attended a royally sponsored bathing rite at Wat Trithosadhep for Pol Sgt-Maj Wittaya Promsamlee who was posthumously promoted to police captain. The police officer was killed in the grenade attack on a police checkpoint at the entrance of Lumpini Park near the Red Shirt protest site on Saturday morning.
His body will be sent for a religious funeral at his home town in the northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani.
Two police officers were killed and 13 persons wounded, including seven police, three soldiers and three civilians, in two deadly attacks by unknown assailants in Bangkok’s Silom Road financial district and nearby Sala Daeng-Rama IV Road.
Police said the first incident occurred at about 11pm Friday when gunmen fired at police and civilians at Krung Thai Bank's Silom branch, near Sala Daeng intersection and the rally site of the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). Five persons -- three police and two civilians -- were wounded in the Saturday night incident.
The second incident took place at 1.30am Saturday morning when assailants fired three M-79 grenades, hitting near a park gate on Rama IV Road where a joint check-point of police and military was located. Five anti-riot police officers were wounded, one of whom died later in hospital, and three soldiers were wounded in the incident, police said. (TNA)
Asked about the Prime Minister’s comment that Army Specialist Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol opposed the reconciliation plan, Mr Suthep said that the prime minister spoke clearly on that and told the media to wait and see if legal action will be taken decisively after the deadline for the anti-government protesters to end the protest at Ratchaprasong on May 10.
The country's police are gathering evidence on the weekend shooting and grenade attacks at Silom Road and Sala Daeng to take legal action against the perpetrators.The Royal Thai Police Bureau is expected to later report on the investigation to the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES), said Mr Suthep.
Acting National Police Chief Pol Gen Pateep Tanprasert warned that those who carried out the attacks may strike again as the police investigation into the weekend violence continues. Gen Pateep said more police reinforcements have been added in the Silom-Sala Daeng area to prevent any further violent incidents.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva attended a royally sponsored bathing rite at Wat Trithosadhep for Pol Sgt-Maj Wittaya Promsamlee who was posthumously promoted to police captain. The police officer was killed in the grenade attack on a police checkpoint at the entrance of Lumpini Park near the Red Shirt protest site on Saturday morning.
His body will be sent for a religious funeral at his home town in the northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani.
Two police officers were killed and 13 persons wounded, including seven police, three soldiers and three civilians, in two deadly attacks by unknown assailants in Bangkok’s Silom Road financial district and nearby Sala Daeng-Rama IV Road.
Police said the first incident occurred at about 11pm Friday when gunmen fired at police and civilians at Krung Thai Bank's Silom branch, near Sala Daeng intersection and the rally site of the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD). Five persons -- three police and two civilians -- were wounded in the Saturday night incident.
The second incident took place at 1.30am Saturday morning when assailants fired three M-79 grenades, hitting near a park gate on Rama IV Road where a joint check-point of police and military was located. Five anti-riot police officers were wounded, one of whom died later in hospital, and three soldiers were wounded in the incident, police said. (TNA)
