Reuters: Thai Troops Battle Protesters As Crisis Deepens
Thai troops opened
fire on rioting anti-government demonstrators on Friday in an attempt to
throw a security cordon around their protest site, turning Bangkok's
commercial district into a bloody battlefield.
Troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds at the mostly rural and urban poor "red shirt" protesters who hurled stones and launched home-made rockets on roads surrounding the shopping district they have occupied for nearly six weeks, witnesses said.
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Troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds at the mostly rural and urban poor "red shirt" protesters who hurled stones and launched home-made rockets on roads surrounding the shopping district they have occupied for nearly six weeks, witnesses said.
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