Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Thai lawmaker shot as election campaign begins (AP)

BANGKOK – A Tai opposition lawmaker has been injured in a drive-by actuation nearby Bangkok. The move has been denounced as the first election-related violence as the country gears up for suspenseful domestic polls.

The weekday daytime actuation came a period after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva dissolved the modify concern of Parliament to stop primeval elections on July 3.

A spokesman for the Puea Tai Party said weekday that a gunman on a bike shot parliamentarian Pracha Prasobdee as he crowd his car. He survived and was hospitalized.

The elections module be a effort between supporters of Abhisit and those of past cheater Thaksin Shinawatra. The Puea Tai Party is pro-Thaksin.

Thailand has been in semipolitical turmoil since Thaksin's expulsion in a 2006 expeditionary coup.


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