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Dozens killed, hundreds held

Thai troops open fire on demonstrators
BAkOK. May 18: Thai troopapened fire on anti-goverrsnt demonstrators in centraBangkok to night, killing- wounding dozens, adtnew said. reports Reuter.
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had fired at the demonstrators and . when the shooting stopped troops began moving in on the crowd from both sides, the reports said.
Soldiers had broken yp a mass demonstration earlier In the day by advancing on the crowd, firing assault rifles in the air. but In a pre-dawn Incident they fired on anti-gov ernment demonstrators, killing an estimated 13 and wounding hundreds.
AP adds: Troops charged Into the streets Monday and arrested hundreds of die hard protester*. Including seven main leaders, after a night of
bloody clashes with lens ol thousands demanding the prime minister's ouster
Faced with the largest and bloodiest anti-establishment protest since 1976. the gov ernment declared a state of emergency just after midnight and sent riot police and sol dlcrs to stop the demonst ra tions.
At least eight people were killed and 250 injured over night, when security forces opened fire, authorities and hospitals said
On national television. Pri-mr Minister Suchlnda Krapra-yoon said "the government had no choice but to use force" because protesters were hen ded toward government buddings.
Troops armed with rifles fired thousands of rounds Into the air to disperse the several thousand demonstrators who had remained at barbed wire barricades on Rajdamnern Avenue despite the violence overnight Armored personnel carriers rolled in amid the
gunfire.
and klek demonstrators who had surrendered People fled Into sidestreeta but returned to jeer the troops In a constant cat-and-mouse chase.
At about 3:30 pm (0830 GMT), reporters saw soldiers handcuff pro-democracy leader Chamfong Srlmuang and take him away Cham long had been in a van parked In front of the barricades, telling reporters that the demonstrators would make "no compromise at all" in their demand for Suchinda s ouster
Chamfong headed a seven-member committee that organized the rallies. The government-run Channel 9 television reported that all six other members also were arrested. Including Prateep Ungsong-tham Hata, "the alum angel" who Is widely praised in Asia for helping Bangkok's most Impoverished
After taking Chamfong away, soldiers forced about 200 demonstrators near the barri cades to lie on their stomachs on the ground. They then herded them, hands tied behind their backs. Into army trucks and buses. The demonstrators defiantly sang the national anthem.
Reporters witnessed hundreds of other arrests on sidestreeta.