Five killed in Thai street clashes
Hospital official say at least five people were killed today in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the Thai capital, including a Japanese journalist.
Pichaya Nakwatchara, the director of BMA General Hospital, said the journalist worked for the Thomson Reuters news agency.
The hospital said the other four fatalities in the Bangkok clashes were protesters.
Earlier, demonstrators had taken the body of a man believed to have been killed in fighting to their encampment.
The so-called Red Shirt protesters are demanding that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva should dissolve parliament and call new elections.
