Police probe shooting at police buses Saturday night after ReDem protest at Criminal Court

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Police probe shooting at police buses Saturday night after ReDem protest at Criminal Court

 

 

The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into who fired shots, damaging three police buses near the Ratchayothin tunnel, late on Saturday night.

 

Pol Lt-Gen Pakkapong Pongpetra, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, told the media on Sunday that that bullets, of unspecified caliber, punched holes in each of the windshields of the three buses, but caused no injuries. The buses were about to leave the scene of the protest near the Criminal Court on Ratchadapisek Road, to take officers back to the Region 1 Border Patrol Police headquarters in Pathum Thani province.

 

The police commissioner said that police booked Piyarat Chongthep, alias Toto, head of the WeVo guards, and three other guards at the car park of Major Ratchayothin shopping mall, after they found 15 slingshots, 50 steel pellets, 300 glass pellets, 30 smoke bombs, 30 plastic bags containing fermented fish, 13 crash helmets, 37 bullet-proof vests, a teargas canister and a police shield in their shoulder bags. He claimed that the non-lethal weapons were to be used to trigger violence at the protest site.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/police-probe-shooting-at-police-buses-saturday-night-after-redem-protest-at-criminal-court/

 

 

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