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Fri, May 14 2010 Related Video Red shirt military leader injured Thu, May 13 2010 Thai protests again turn violent Thai army to block Bangkok roads < 1 / 33 > View Full Size BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai troops fired at protesters on Saturday in a third day of fighting on Bangkok's streets that has killed 16 people as soldiers struggle to isolate a sprawling encampment of demonstrators seeking to topple the government. World | Thailand Clashes continued across central Bangkok as soldiers behind sand bags or atop buildings fired live rounds at protesters armed with petrol bombs. One was shot in the chest while trying to ignite a tire in Bangkok's usually bustling business district. At Din Daeng intersection, north of the protest site, three bodies were evacuated on stretchers, a Reuters witness said. Two suffered head wounds. Troops also swarmed into a parking lot at the popular Dusit Thani hotel outside the protest site. That followed a long night of grenade explosions and sporadic gunfire as the army battled to set up a perimeter around the 3.5 sq-km (1.2 sq-mile) barricaded encampment where thousands refuse to leave, including women and children. "We'll keep on fighting," said Kwanchai Praipana, a leader of the red-shirted protesters, calling on Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resign and take responsibility for Thailand's deadliest political crisis in 18 years. He said supplies of food, water and fuel were starting to run thin as their usual delivery trucks were blocked but that they had enough to last "days". Hardcore protesters, gathering in small numbers, set fire to vehicles, including an army truck, and hurled rocks at troops who set up razor wire at checkpoints and asked residents to show identification cards to stop people from joining the mostly rural and urban poor "red shirts". The crisis has paralyzed Bangkok, squeezed Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy, scared off tourists and choked off investment in one of Asia's most promising emerging markets. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon expressed concern over "the rapidly mounting tensions and violence". "He strongly encourages them to urgently return to dialogue in order to de-escalate the situation and resolve matters peacefully," his spokesman said in a statement. The Canadian government urged both sides to return to talks after a Bangkok-based Canadian journalist was shot three times, one of three journalists wounded in fighting that has spiraled into chaotic urban warfare where front lines shift quickly. "UNLIKELY TO END QUICKLY" The government said on Friday it would restore order "in the next few days" as the city of 15 million people braced for a crackdown to end a six-week protest by thousands of "red shirts" packed into an area of high-end department stores, luxury hotels, embassies and expensive residential apartments. The Erawan Medical Center in Bangkok said 16 people had been killed and 141 wounded in the latest fighting. "It's unlikely to end quickly," said a source close to army chief Anupong Paochinda, fearing more protesters would arrive to surround and attack soldiers. "There will be several skirmishes in the coming days but we are still confident we will get the numbers down and seal the area," added the source, who declined to be identified by name. The number of protesters in the main encampment appeared to have dropped overnight but several thousands remained, many singing and listening to speeches by protest leaders. Some leaders, including the movement's chairman, have disappeared. Protesters are barricaded behind walls of kerosene-soaked tires, sharpened bamboo staves, concrete blocks and razor wire. Before fighting began on Thursday with the shooting of a renegade general allied with the protesters, the two-month crisis had already killed 29 people and wounded about 1,400 -- most of whom died during an April 10 gun battle in Bangkok's old quarter. The fighting is the latest flare-up in a polarizing five-year crisis between a royalist urban elite establishment, who back the prime minister, and the rural and urban poor who accuse conservative elites and the military's top brass of colluding to bring down two elected governments. Those governments were led or backed by exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, a graft-convicted populist billionaire ousted in a 2006 coup who is a figurehead of the protest movement. The red shirts and their supporters say the politically powerful military influenced a 2008 parliamentary vote, which took place after a pro-Thaksin party was dissolved, to ensure the British-born, Oxford-educated Abhisit rose to power. Five-year Thai credit default swaps, used to hedge against debt default, widened by more than 30 basis points on Friday -- the biggest jump in 15 months -- to 142 basis points. "With gun battles and grenades going off, investors will look elsewhere," said Danny Richards, an analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit. "I don't think many see the end of this protest as the end of the crisis. When there's an election, either side will reject the legitimacy of the other and we'll be back to square one." (Additional reporting by Martin Petty and Adrees Latif; Editing by Bill Tarrant) World Thailand Comments See All Comments (5) | Post Comment May 15, 2010 12:00am EDT Jattuporn Prompan can you please come out from behind your medieval barriers and fight like a man for your beliefs. Seh Deang would turn over in his grave if he could see how much of a coward you really are. 1Rambo1 Report As Abusive May 15, 2010 12:36am EDT A general for their army? What a very strange way to fight a war – with a bunch of potential martyrs throwing rocks and fire bombs at a real army, daring them to mow them down in order to whip up the whole country into civil war. And to think leftists in the United States are getting all puffed up trying to pretend that the Tea Party protesters are dangerous. It’s laughable. Parker1227 Report As Abusive May 15, 2010 12:39am EDT In the U.S. they would arrest them all. Arson and assualt (even with rocks), are crimes. Parker1227 Report As Abusive May 15, 2010 2:36am EDT lol, Canada, a bunch of limp-wristed, hypocritical zionists. Uh, the “troops struggle”, yeah, struggle to shoot those ill-equipped – quite a struggle. campbellville Report As Abusive May 15, 2010 3:10am EDT Tomorrow please don’t go any department store around suburban such as Pinklaw, Rama3, Bangkae,Ngamwongwan, Rama2….Inside news said terrorists will shoot M79 to any public place which located outside red zone for commotion. 1Rambo1 Report As Abusive See All Comments (5) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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