4 die in clashes as Thai PM faces charges
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Thailand’s embattled premier will be charged with neglect of duty, anti-graft officials said yesterday, as clashes between police and opposition protesters left four dead and dozens wounded in central Bangkok.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission said that if found guilty of the accusations — which relate to a controversial rice subsidy scheme — Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra could be removed from office.
The announcement came hours after gunfire and explosions shook an area of the city’s historic district just a short walk away from major tourist attractions, as riot police moved to clear sites of protest rallies.
A policeman was shot dead and three civilians were killed, said the Erawan emergency centre, while 64 people were injured. Police said 24 of its officers were among those hurt.
It was unclear who fired the fatal shots but a government spokeswoman said police used only rubber bullets.
The protesters have staged more than three months of street rallies demanding Yingluck’s resignation, occupying state buildings and preventing civil servants going to work.
Police tried again to reclaim besieged government buildings and clear rally sites in the capital yesterday.
They met fierce resistance from protesters and were forced to retreat amid gunfire.
“The government cannot work here anymore,” a spokesman for the protesters, Akanat Promphan, said from a rally site near Yingluck’s headquarters.
Around 150 opposition demonstrators were arrested at a different rally site at an energy ministry complex in the capital — the first mass detentions since the current protests began.
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