Friday, 17 April 2009

Assassination attempt on 'Yellow Shirt' leader


CNN's Dan Rivers reports:
Thai political Yellow Shirt leader Sondhi Limthongkul has been shot and wounded.

Also reported in The Times: Sondhi Limthongkul, the founder of the political movement that overran Bangkok’s airport last year, is in hospital recovering from surgery after gunmen wielding automatic weapons ambushed his car and sprayed it with bullets.

An unknown number of gunmen shot out the tyres of the car owned by Mr Sondhi, the head of the People’s Alliance for Democracy "yellow shirt" movement, and riddled the vehicle with bullets. Stray bullets also hit a nearby public bus.

The tycoon’s media network reported that more than 100 bullets were fired by the gunmen and AK-47 and M16 shells were found around the car. Mr Sondhi's bodyguard and his driver were also injured, his driver seriously.

A spokesman for Wachira Hospital in Bangkok said that Mr Sondhi, 61, had been wounded in the head but was recovering well from surgery to remove the shrapnel and stem the bleeding in his brain.




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