Thailand is mourning the 37 victims of a mass shooting and stabbing.
Five people have been treated for gunshot wounds, after at least 50 were injured in the latest pro-democracy protests in the Thai capital Bangkok. Crowds clashed with riot police outside the country’s parliament – as officers fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse them. Lawmakers have begun debating proposals to amend Thailand’s constitution.
Riot police in Thailand have fired water cannon and charged at crowds of protesters in the capital Bangkok, who had gathered in defiance of a strict state of emergency decree.
Thousands of mostly young Thais have defied an emergency decree banning all protests in a large demonstration in central Bangkok.
Across Asia crowded wet markets are very much open for business.
In northern Thailand rescuers say they could be ready to start bringing out the 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave as soon as tomorrow. But if there’s more rain – who knows what risks they could face.
Thai authorities are racing to pump out water from a flooded cave where the 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23. If they’re aren’t freed soon the arrival of the monsoon rain could mean months stuck underground.
The boys have been trapped by floodwater in the cave system for 12 days. If they’re aren’t freed soon the arrival of the monsoon rain could mean months stuck underground.
Rescuers in Thailand are still trying to work out how to extract 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a cave. The group were found on Monday after nine days stranded underground by rising waters. Military divers have reached the boys and have been providing food and medical treatment. We are in northern Thailand,…
They’re calling it Black Friday. Thais are dressed in black today, with many in tears of mourning for King Bhumibol, who died yesterday after a 70-year reign.
The Thai government has declared a year of national mourning following the death of Bhumibol. But the government has delayed an expected announcement of his son – the crown prince – as his successor.
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The Bangkok bomber has not left the country and remains at large in Thailand, according to a senior Thai military official. He told Channel 4 News that the police were confident that arrests would soon be made.
Thai police say they believe the bomber who killed 20 people at a Bangkok shrine was part of a network, as they identify two new suspects.
A British national was killed in the attack on the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond confirms.
A bomb on a motorcycle kills at least 16 people and injures dozens more at a Hindu shrine in central Bangkok.