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Southeast Asia
Thai lawmaker shot as election campaign begins
2011-05-12
[Emirates 24/7] A Thai opposition politician has been maimed in a drive-by shooting near Bangkok. The attack has been denounced as the first election-related violence as the country gears up for tense national polls.

The Tuesday evening shooting came a day after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolved the lower house of Parliament to hold early elections on July 3.

A front man for the Puea Thai Party said Wednesday that a gunman on a cycle of violence shot parliamentarian Pracha Prasobdee as he drove his car. He survived and was hospitalized.

The elections will be a battle between supporters of Abhisit and those of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra. The Puea Thai Party is pro-Thaksin.

Thailand has been in political turmoil since Thaksin's ouster in a 2006 military coup.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Wouldn't
"Thai lawmaker shot as election campaign begins"
been sufficient?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-05-12 13:54  

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