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(Violent attacks on Silom and Lumpini)
BANGKOK: -- A policeman was killed while seven policemen and two civilians were injured in a shooting and bomb attack on Silom Road and in front of Lumpini Park Friday night. The two attacks were less than three hours apart. The first attack occurred at 10.45pm just in front of Krung Thai Bank near Soi Saladaeng. An assailant on a motorcycle opened fire and hit 3 policemen and 2 passerbys. Pol Cpl Kannupan Lertchanpen was killed in the gun wound on his stomach. The attack was on a small group of people protesting against red shirts at Saladaeng intersection. Police were keeping security there to prevent clashes between the two groups of protesters. Firecracker explosions had been heard from Lumpini before the shooting. Less than 3 hours later at 1.30am Saturday morning, at least three M79 grenades were fired at a police/soldier checkpoint near Lumpini gate 4, injuring 5 cops, 1 seriously. The injured policemen were deployed from from Hangnam Sakorn, Chainat province. They were rushed to Rama and Chulalongkorn hospitals. Police spokesman Pol Lt Gen Pongsatat Pongcharoen said police believed the grenades were M79. He said the two attacks must be done by te same group of people who want to destabilise the situation.
Four injured in Bangkok shooting: medic
BANGKOK (AFP) -- Four people, including two policemen, were injured by gunshots Friday in a central Bangkok area occupied by Thailand's anti-government protesters, an emergency medical worker said. "There were several gunshots and four people were injured -- two police and two civilians," said the member of Bangkok emergency medical services. One of the injured policeman was undergoing an operation after being shot in the stomach, the medical worker said, adding that injuries to the other three wounded were not serious. The shots were fired in the financial district, near the site of a grenade attack on April 23 that killed a 26-year-old Thai woman and injured scores of other people, including foreigners. The windows of a bank were shattered in the shooting. There is still a heavy police presence in the area, on the edge of the rally base set up by the anti-government Red Shirt protesters. The area has been cordoned off with rolls of razor wire and has been guarded by riot police since the Red Shirts occupied the area eight weeks ago, demanding the dissolution of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's government. The Red Shirts, who are loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have paralysed parts of Bangkok and their protest has erupted into bouts of violence that have left 27 people dead and injured almost 1,000. Abhisit was fighting Friday to keep his peace process alive in the face of opposition among rival protest movements to his "roadmap" for early elections. The process appears to have stalled as the parties struggle to bridge their differences over a date for the dissolution of the Thai parliament.
Four injured in Bangkok shooting: medic
BANGKOK (AFP) -- Four people, including two policemen, were injured by gunshots Friday in a central Bangkok area occupied by Thailand's anti-government protesters, an emergency medical worker said. "There were several gunshots and four people were injured -- two police and two civilians," said the member of Bangkok emergency medical services. One of the injured policeman was undergoing an operation after being shot in the stomach, the medical worker said, adding that injuries to the other three wounded were not serious. The shots were fired in the financial district, near the site of a grenade attack on April 23 that killed a 26-year-old Thai woman and injured scores of other people, including foreigners. The windows of a bank were shattered in the shooting. There is still a heavy police presence in the area, on the edge of the rally base set up by the anti-government Red Shirt protesters. The area has been cordoned off with rolls of razor wire and has been guarded by riot police since the Red Shirts occupied the area eight weeks ago, demanding the dissolution of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's government. The Red Shirts, who are loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have paralysed parts of Bangkok and their protest has erupted into bouts of violence that have left 27 people dead and injured almost 1,000. Abhisit was fighting Friday to keep his peace process alive in the face of opposition among rival protest movements to his "roadmap" for early elections. The process appears to have stalled as the parties struggle to bridge their differences over a date for the dissolution of the Thai parliament.
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