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| Blasts at Bangkok anti-govt rally wound 28 |
| 2014-01-20 |
| [DAWN] Explosions injured almost 30 people in central Bangkok on Sunday during a continuing "shutdown" protest aimed at toppling the Thai government, an emergency centre said. Twenty-eight people were taken to several hospitals across the city, according to the Erawan Emergency Centre. Protesters said the injuries were caused by two separate blasts at a rally. Witnesses said the kabooms occurred about two minutes apart. The first blast went off about 100-200 meters (yards) from a stage set up by protesters, and the second went off near a row of vendors selling anti-government T-shirts. The violence is the latest to hit the city as Thailand's increasingly volatile political crisis drags on. It was not immediately clear what caused the blasts Sunday afternoon near Victory Monument, in the north of the city. Earlier on Saturday a gunman opened fire on anti-government protesters in Thailand's capital, severely wounding one man in the latest violence to hit Bangkok as the country's political standoff drags on, officials said Sunday. |
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