Pattaya Protesters Attack Prime Minister’s Car
A vehicle carrying Thai prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, has been attacked today in the Thai beach resort of Pattaya. Local reports say that the Thai leader was unharmed, but a window of the car was smashed in the incident. Earlier, hundreds of red-shirted anti-government protesters surrounded the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel which is home to the Pattaya Exhibition and Convention Hall where the cabinet meeting was taking place. It seems that Abhisit and his security team had initially slipped out of the hotel unnoticed, but the PM’s car was later spotted at traffic lights and dozens of protesters besieged the vehicle before the police could intervene.
The weekly cabinet meeting was being held in Pattaya ahead of a regional ASEAN meeting which is due to take place in the same resort at the weekend. On his return to Bangkok, Abhisit played down the incident, but it has increased the tension ahead of tomorrow’s mass anti-government rally in the Thai capital.
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