Thai soldiers, anti-government protesters clash

Sunday, April 12, 2009


Thai soldiers watch for anti-government demonstrators as they clear an intersection early Monday, April 13, 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai soldiers unleashed hundreds of rounds of automatic weapons fire to clear rock-throwing anti-government protesters from a major intersection in the capital in the pre-dawn darkness Monday.

Thai soldiers charge and fire gun shots in the air to disperse Thai supporters of exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Ding Daeng intersection in the early morning, in Bangkok on April 13, 2009. Thai troops fired tear gas and shots in the air to disperse anti-government protesters in Bangkok, wounding 68 people amid a crackdown to enforce a state of emergency in the capital, officials said.

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