Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: April 22nd, 2010
Method: 3-5 M-79 Grenades
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 75
Perpetrators: Suspected Red Shirts

Wire Update reports:

Confrontations between law enforcement and Red Shirt protestors peaked, as the protestors have been demanding the resignations of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who called an emergency meeting with security officials following the explosions.

The explosions, several of which took place on the platform of an elevated train, scattered shrapnel through crowds that included foreign tourists, sending people fleeing in panic into shops and restaurants.
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It was the worst violence since April 10, when 25 people were killed in a clash between the military and the red shirts, and it raised fears that confrontations between rival groups of protesters could spread.

Tensions have increased in recent days, with the red shirts threatening to march on the financial district and the government warning of an imminent crackdown. “Your days are numbered,” an army spokesman, Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, said Thursday, addressing the red shirts.

The casualties came in an area patrolled by the military where pro-government demonstrators have gathered recently, shouting insults at the anti-government red shirts, who have massed behind a barricade of concrete blocks, stacked tires and sharpened bamboo poles.