The skirmishes at Pol 1 intersection and Chamai Maruchet bridge, where the clashes broke out on Sunday, resumed in the morning when thousands of protesters tried to break through police barricades to get...
Clashes also erupted at Orathai bridge near Government House and at Karn Ruan intersection near parliament.
At all sites, protesters tried to remove giant concrete barriers and cut barbed-wire fences, prompting police to use tear gas and water cannons. The situation was most tense at Chamai Maruchet bridge...
The situation was most tense at Chamai Maruchet bridge where a Bangkok Post reporter saw at least four people, including a Daily News photographer, get shot.
An Al Jazeera car was also shot at, but their crew was not injured. Another Thai reporter sustained head injuries from a hard object hurled at him.
A field hospital was set up at the nearby Royal Turf Club in the Nang Loeng area where hundreds of protesters who were injured during the Chamai Maruchet and Orathai clashes streamed in to seek