A security guard stands behind a gate as Thai anti-government protesters wave national flags outside the customs department during ongoing rallies in Bangkok on January 14, 2014
BANGKOK (AFP) - Two people were wounded in a shooting at an opposition rally in the Thai capital Wednesday, authorities said, as protest leaders prepared to march through plush city neighbourhoods in their bid to oust the premier.
The demonstrators, backed by the kingdom's royalist establishment, want Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to resign to make way for an unelected "people's council" that would oversee reforms to curb the political dominance of her billionaire brother Thaksin.
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