Reax after court's dismissal of Cartaker PM Yingluck

BANGKOK, May 8 (TNA) - Grenade attacks happened at three locations in Bangkok on Wednesday night, after the Constitutional Court ruled to remove caretaker prime minister and defence minister Yingluck Shinawatra and nine other Cabinet members for involving in her past unlawful transfer of Thawil Pliensri from the secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC) position in 2011, but there were no reports of casualties. Security camera footage shows a man hurled an M67 grenade at the house of a Constitutional Court judge, Supoj Khaimook, on Lat Phrao 34 Road. The explosion damaged a garage roof and an automobile glass pane. Supoj was not home at that time. Two more grenades were fired at Chulabhorn Hospital in Laksi area, shattering panes of a taxi and a doctor dormitory. Besides, two grenades were shot at the headquarters of Siam Commercial Bank near Ratchayothin Intersection in Bangkok, smashing panes. Police assumed that attackers at the two latters were of the same group but firing the grenades separately, as shrapnel at both places was of the same type. Meanwhile, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) continued its probe on alleged corruption of the government's loss-ridden rice-pledging scheme on Thursday, amid heightened security measures, as the independent anti-graft panel was expected to decide later in the day whether it would indict Yinguck for failing to stop the loss-ridden rice-pledging scheme. The NACC has already finished its investigation and listened to Yingluck's defence and witnesses. If the anti-graft commission decided to indict Yingluck, it must ask the Senate to dismiss her within 30 days. Nattawut Saikuar, secretary-general of the pro-government red shirt movement, claimed that the NACC was instructed to make the decision within May 8 to create a political vacuum, which is considered unfair. Yingluck stayed home to wait for the NACC's movement, while her remaining Cabinet members met at the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Defence and assigned the Council of State to ask the Constitutional Court about the status of the Cabinet. The Election Commission of Thailand (EC) is scheduled to discuss Thailand's next general election with Acting Caretaker Prime Minister Niwatthamrong Bunsongphaisan on May 14, expected to be focused on the issuance of a royal decree on setting the next national poll date and the content of the royal decree, after the caretaker government and the EC earlier agreed that the next general election date should be held on July 20, 2014. Suthep Thaugsuban, secretary-general of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), in the meantime, continued the group's street campaign in Bangkok's Sukhumvit area, as the PDRC plans to stage a mass rally on May 9, expanding from the Lumpini public park to Ratchaprasong, Ratchadamri and Pathumwan Intersections, as well as to Henri Dunant Road and other major roads in the heart of the capital. (TNA)