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Wed 04 Apr 2010Thai soldier shot in Bangkok clash
Thai troops fired live rounds into charging anti-government protesters in a chaotic clash that killed a soldier and wounded 19 people on a congested highway in Bangkok's suburbs today.
In defiance of a state of emergency, about 2,000 "red shirt" protesters left their main protest site in central Bangkok's shopping district on pickup trucks and motorbikes for a "mobile rally" but were halted by a roadblock of troops and riot police.
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