Thai police push back protesters at vigil for dead youth


Protesters flash three finger salutes during a memorial for 15-year-old Warit Somnoi, a protester who has died two months after being shot during an anti-government rally, outside a police station in Bangkok on Friday, October 29, 2021. - AFP

BANGKOK, Oct 29 (Reuters): Thai police pushed back pro-democracy supporters who had gathered at a Bangkok police station on Friday to hold a candlelit vigil for a young activist who died a day earlier.

Warit Somnoi, 15, had been in a coma since August, caused by a gunshot wound that left a bullet lodged close to his brain.

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