limbo Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 5 reportedly killed so far Thai PBS quoted the Central Hospital director as announcing that five people have been killed so far in the crackdowns against the red-shirt protesters and 300 injured . One of them was a Japanese reporter. Reuters reported that the slain Japanese reporter was identified as Huroyuki Muramoto. The Nation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 How many more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limbo Posted April 10, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 http://twitter.com/journotopia French photographer tells me she saw troops open fire on medics trying to evacuate wounded. 14 minutes ago via mobile web Shooting continues even as ambulances arrive to take away the injured. 28 minutes ago via mobile web Colleague says he saw one man shot in the groin. The tarmac around Democracy Monument spattered with blood. 29 minutes ago via mobile web The Royal Thai Army is killing its people. Again. 31 minutes ago via mobile web Eyewitness reports of other injuries. Soldier dead or near dead. Man with brain blown out. 32 minutes ago via mobile web People are dying now. Just saw a red shirt, looking very dead, taken away in ambulance. 33 minutes ago via mobile web Cars and buildings in Khao San riddled with bullet holes. 39 minutes ago via mobile web Barricades going up at Khao San. Reds preparing for soldiers' return. Several pools of blood on road. 40 minutes ago via mobile web Don't listen to bland Thai govt reassuarances. Khao San is a dangerous place. I've seen 2 tourists with injuries. about 1 hour ago via mobile web Khao San lis shuttered up, red shirts everywhere. It looks like a warzone. about 1 hour ago via mobile web Streets littered with broken cars, bricks, other projectiles. Soldiers have retreated. about 1 hour ago via mobile web Pitched battles in streets around Khao San. Tourists ducking for cover. A red shirt with an AK47. about 1 hour ago via mobile web A Thai journalist carried out, bleeding. about 1 hour ago via mobile web Massive explosions, gunfire around Khao San. about 1 hour ago via mobile web Scenes of chaos at Khao San. Tourists tell me they saw horrific inuries, an old man with an eye hanging out. about 1 hour ago via mobile web Walked past Govt House. 100s more soldiers, some heavily armed, facing down 500 or so reds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 sounds like Khao San is not the place to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/04/10/politics/Clashes-claim-at-least-eight-lives-Erawan-center-30126961.html Clashes claim at least eight lives : Erawan center Eight people, including a foreign photographer, were killed as red shirts protesters battled with combined forces of police and soldiers. Erawan Rescue Center's chief Phetpong Kamjornkitjakarn said a total of eight people were killed during the clashes. At least 486 people, soldiers and red shirts protesters were wounded. He confirmed that one victim was a Japanese reporter of Reuters news agency. Central Hospital director Dr Pitchaya Nakwatchara earlier identified the photographer as Hirouki Muramoto. Muramoto was shot at his chest, he said. The others were Sawat Wangam, 43, who was hit at head, while the two others victims; Thanachai (last name unknown) and Noppachai Mekfangam, died after being shot at the chest. Name of the fifth victim could not be identified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallenda Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 How did it move to Khao San Road? I can think of 2 scenarios: 1. they went there to deliberately use the area as a kind of human shield, and/or to maximize the headlines impact of a battle taking place in the tourist district 2. they went there fleeing from Rathcdamnoen(sp, sorry) Guess we'll find out tomorrow, or maybe even later tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faustian Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 BBC now reporting 9 dead. Some news sources saying 10+ dead. All a bit confused at the moment. 4 soldiers, 4 civilians and a Japanese reporter are said to have died. Very sad. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 its 2nd article on the bbc news, behind the polish prez getting killed in a plane wreck......nothing on sky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave32 Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Making the news channels here now too. Latest from the Bangkok Post: : ----- The government sued the opposition for peace on Saturday night, after a failed but bloody attack by police and the army on red shirt encampments left nine people dead and hundreds wounded in bloody street battles. A spokesman said Korbsak Sabhavasu, the prime minister's secretary-general, has been assigned to try to negotiate a truce with the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) leaders The Centre for Public Administration in Emergency Situations (CPAES) spokesman Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd announced the move in a nationwide television address about 9.30pm. He said talks were needed immediately to separate the two sides and end the ongoing clashes, because the situation was heading out of control and there could be further casualties on both sides. The call for truce came after at least 100 soldiers were reportedly wounded in the clashes with the red-shirts at Khok Wua intersection on Ratchadamnoen Avenue on Saturday night while trying to advance towards Phan Fa bridge amid fierce resistance by the red-shirts. Television reports said the red-shirts lit a gas cylinder and rolled it toward the soldiers at Khok Wua intersection. The subsequent explosion wounded at least 50 soldiers. At the same time, gunshots were reportedly fired from red-shirts, wounding 50-60 soldiers on Tanao road near Khok Wua intersection. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted April 10, 2010 Report Share Posted April 10, 2010 Thai visa reporting 10+ dead including at least 4 soldiers and 1 Japanese reporter/cameraman. 300+ wounded, and the reds supposedly stealing the bodies of their people from the hospital and taking them back for display at Phan Fa (sp?)...sounds great... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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