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Thai man shot after row with anti-govt protesters: police
AFP - 1 hour 15 minutes ago
BANGKOK (AFP) - - A Thai man was shot and injured on Sunday after an argument with volunteer guards at an anti-government protest camp in Bangkok, police said, as tensions heated up between rival political groups.
Four men from Samut Prakan province south of Bangkok were in the capital for a night out and were returning home in the early hours of Sunday morning when they drove past the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protest camp.
"They had an argument with PAD guards and then they drove away and crashed with a taxi and gunfire was heard," said police captain Pomphet Choteklang.
One man in his early 20s received a gunshot wound in his right shoulder, Pomphet told AFP, but said they were still investigating who fired the shot.
Ten of the volunteer PAD security guards were injured last week when a grenade was hurled at their protest camp, heightening fears that political tensions in Thailand were again spiralling towards increased violence.
A man was also shot dead last week near the PAD protest site, while a grenade was thrown at the home of a judge.
The PAD have occupied the prime minister's Bangkok offices since late August and are demanding the government step down because of links to ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whom they accuse of corruption and nepotism.
On October 7, the campaign boiled over into violence after police fired tear gas on PAD protesters trying to block parliament. Two people were killed and nearly 500 injured in the resulting clashes.
Tens of thousands of anti-PAD, pro-Thaksin supporters crowded into a Bangkok stadium on Saturday to listen to Thaksin give a video address from abroad. He fled Thailand in August as graft charges mounted against him.
Saturday's event had raised fears of clashes between the red-shirted Thaksin supporters and yellow-shirted PAD, but the event ended peacefully.
Pomphet said the injured man had not attended the pro-government rally.
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