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Grenade thrown in Thailand's protest zone, several wounded
At least six members of an anti-government street movement in Thailand were wounded on Thursday when a grenade was thrown into their protest zone in the middle of the night, domestic radio and television said.
- Agencies
- Published: 12:42 October 30, 2008
Bangkok: At least six members of an anti-government street movement in Thailand were wounded on Thursday when a grenade was thrown into their protest zone in the middle of the night, domestic radio and television said.
State-run television channel NBT said that at around 3am a man riding on the back of a motorbike threw the grenade at a barricade manned by guards for the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which has been campaigning since May to unseat the government.
Two of the guards were admitted to hospital, and one was in a coma, the station reported. The rest were treated by medics from inside the PAD protest zone, which includes the Prime Minister's official compound overrun in August.
Later, the PAD staged a march to the British embassy in Bangkok to try to pressure London to extradite former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a 2006 coup and sentenced in absentia to two years in jail for corruption last week.
Thaksin has been in England for the last three months after skipping bail.
Thailand's political crisis dates back to 2005 when the PAD, a motley group of royalist academics, businessmen and social activists, launched their street campaign against Thaksin, whom they accused of cronyism and abuse of power.
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