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Reds, police agree to pull back at Silom
Published: 23/04/2010 at 02:00 PM
Online news: Local News

Red-shirt protesters and security forces confronted each other in Silom financial district on Friday, after a series of bomb explosions killed one person and wounded 86 others in the area on Thursday night.

The tension eased after the red-shirt protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) and police agreed in the morning they would each pull back 100 metres from the fortified barricade erected at Sala Daeng intersection.