BANGKOK: Several Thai anti-government protesters were wounded after gunmen opened fire on a rally in Bangkok, authorities said, intensifying pressure on the caretaker government ahead of a planned city-wide “shutdown”.
The kingdom is in the grip of a political crisis that has led to parliament being dissolved, with demonstrators holding mass protests aimed at toppling Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and ending the influence of her wildly divisive brother on Thai politics.
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