BANGKOK LATEST: Red shirts block roads and rail
BANGKOK – Red shirt protestors in the Thai capital have further provoked the government into taking tougher action to end their protests by forcing Skytrain to suspend operations and blocking roads leading into Bangkok.
A splinter group of red shirts used tyres to block train tracks at Chidlom station, forcing the authority to suspend all services.
The suspension of Skytrain services for several hours this morning severely disrupted travel plans of commuters and tourists using the service to avoid blocked roads and demonstrators.
Skytrain authorities negotiated with red shirts who removed the tyres, allowing Skytrain operations to restart.
Red-shirt demonstrators in many provinces are also blocking main roads heading to Bangkok to intercept motorcades of soldiers and police travelling to the capital to conduct crowd dispersal at Ratchaprasong intersection, their main protest site.
Ian Jarrett
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