Anti-government protesters move main rally site to in front of Bangkok's UN office

BANGKOK, May 12 (TNA) - The anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) is moving its main rally site from Lumpini public park to in front of the United Nations' regional office on Rajadamnoen Avenue in Bangkok. On Monday morning, PDRC demonstrators were still packing their belongings and cleaning the Lumpini public park, where they stayed for two months and nine days, before leaving for their new rally site. PDRC secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban was then leading his demonstrators from the Lumpini public park on Monday afternoon. Some PDRC demonstrators walked to the Parliament to monitor a Senate special session, while the rest marched to their new main rally site in front of the United Nations' regional office. After their departure, police, including bomb experts, examined the Lumpini public park. Meanwhile, two grenades were fired at the PDRC's demonstration site on Chaeng Watthana Road on the outskirts of Bangkok, one of them hit the ground in front of a Thai-styled house and injured one PDRC guard and the other fell in the compound of the 1st Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment. Police Colonel Kamthorn Ouicharoen, an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) superintendent, told reporters that evidence appeared to have been collected by a party before his team's arrival, saying that he believed the grenades were fired from a close distance as they fell on small areas. (TNA)