A Thai anti-government protester, center, is detained by riot police during a clash at a sports stadium in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Rock-throwing protesters trying to halt preparations for elections fought police in the Thai capital on Thursday, escalating their campaign to topple the country鈥檚 beleaguered government. AP
BANGKOK 鈥� A Thai anti-government protester was killed and several others wounded after an unknown gunman opened fire Saturday at a rally site near the government headquarters in Bangkok, emergency services said.
鈥淭he dead man is in his 30s. He was shot in the torso,鈥� a spokesman for the city鈥檚 Erawan emergency centre said.
The pre-dawn attack follows weeks of mass anti-government protests 鈥� seeking to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra 鈥� which have triggered several outbreaks of deadly clashes.