Kuala Lumpur: Several people were injured in Bangkok on Sunday following an anti-government protest. Police fired water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas at the protestors.
Protesters demand that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha step down. They say the government is accountable for its mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The demonstrators clashed with police after some tried to dismantle barbed wire and metal barricades set up across Ratchadamoneon Nok Avenue.
Bangkok Post reports the police wanted to prevent them from marching to the Government House.
Cars and motorcycles joined the protest led by the Free Youth movement and its allies.
“The government has been poor at managing the situation and if we don’t do anything, there will be no change,” one protester, Kanyaporn Veeratat, 34, told Reuters.
Another tweeted the government was ‘murderous’ after police fired rubber bullets and tear gas.
Police seized several effigies of the PM to prevent protesters from setting them on fire outside Government House.
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