Nine people were killed Wednesday in clashes at a temple affirmed a "safe zone" in a Thai revolutionary rally site was shut down in a armed offensive, police said Thursday.
"Doctors and health employees who went to the prospect said they saw nine recipient in the temple," Police operation Centre spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri AFP.
The death toll from Wednesday's unpleasant against the "Red Shirts" camp in central Bangkok at the six, but establishment said they had not conventional any bodies from the place of worship, which indicates it will now rise much senior.
Prawut said the gunbattle rage in the temple early in the twilight, several hours after the complaint leaders came back and told group to spread, as security forces struggled to control the harsh rudiments in motion.
He said the five hurt, counting an unidentified British journalist was taken to hospital with health personnel.
An AFP journalist who was in the temple just before the clashes bankrupt out, said that hundreds of panicked demonstrator took refuge after their leaders told them to leave the campsite.
The holy place was chosen as a gun-free safe zone, but the aggressive black-clad protester stood in and out of the structure when security forces tried to absorb the harsh elements in motion.
People inside, counting many women and children crying in panic and the moving and violent consequences of protests and explosions and shots sustained to be heard outer surface.
The government had put on buses for a arena to bring them home, but the chaos in the street outside, where the building burned, and armed men were nomadic, meant that many could not reach the region.
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