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122100
Fri, 05/14/2010 - 16:23
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THAI TROOPS CLASH WITH PROTESTERS
Baku, May 14 (AzerTAc). Thai security forces have fired rounds after moving in to seal a heavily defended encampment of protesters in the centre of Bangkok.
Embassies were closed as protesters set fire to a police bus and gunshots rang out, amid fierce clashes that left one person dead in the capital overnight. The area is like a war zone, with troops firing into a park as a helicopter buzzes above. The demonstrators want the prime minister to resign and call elections. Many of the so-called red-shirt protesters support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup. Overnight, security forces shut down the electricity supply to the area around the large protest camp in the city centre.
Embassies were closed as protesters set fire to a police bus and gunshots rang out, amid fierce clashes that left one person dead in the capital overnight. The area is like a war zone, with troops firing into a park as a helicopter buzzes above. The demonstrators want the prime minister to resign and call elections. Many of the so-called red-shirt protesters support former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup. Overnight, security forces shut down the electricity supply to the area around the large protest camp in the city centre.
