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| Red Shirt arrested over blast |
| 2010-08-05 |
| [Straits Times] THAI police said on Wednesday they had arrested a man linked to the 'Red Shirt' opposition movement in connection with a grenade blast in Bangkok last week. Sorathien Singkanya, 23, had confessed that the grenade belonged to him but denied planting it himself, Police Major General Wichai Sangprapai said. The blast on a road in Bangkok on July 30 seriously wounded a scrap scavenger. Police said Sorathien was in possession of two grenades and five firecrackers when he was detained in the capital. He is also accused of being involved in more than a dozen other violent incidents. Two months of mass protests by the Red Shirts in the capital from mid-March triggered clashes between demonstrators and troops that left about 90 people dead - mostly civilians - and nearly 1,900 injured. |
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