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BANGKOK - Three small blasts went off near the offices of a key Thai anti-government protest leader early Monday, police said, but no one was injured in the latest in a string of small-scale explosions in Bangkok.
All three blasts hit Bangkok's Banglampoo area, near the offices of ASTV, which is headed by Sondhi Limthongkul, a co-founder of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which is trying to topple the government.
An officer at the Metropolitan Police who did not wish to be named said they still did not know what had caused the explosions.
"As far as we know so far, no one was hurt in those blasts," he said.
Local television footage showed glass at a police box shattered in the first bomb attack.
The blasts come the same day that the PAD has promised fresh rallies in its "final battle" to remove the government, which they accuse of acting as a corrupt puppet of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thousands of PAD supporters were early Monday preparing to leave the Government House compound they have occupied since late August and descend on various state locations throughout the capital.
PAD leaders called for the fresh rallies after one of their supporters was killed and 29 injured in a grenade attack at Government House last week, which Protesters blamed the government for the casualties, but Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has denied any involvement and vowed to investigate. - AFP/vm
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