The Emergency services officials said the explosion at Don Mueang airport had occurred overnight, killing a male PAD activist. According to Channel 7 television, a grenade was fired from a nearby flyover and hit a terminal window, spraying the protesters with shrapnel.
Just hours after the PAD ended a three-month protest at the prime minister’s offices in central Bangkok,the incident occured. The group’s leaders had told them to move to the domestic hub and the main Suvarnabhumi International Airport for their own safety after a grenade attack at Government House injured at least 49 of them on Sunday.
The PAD also agreed on Monday to allow 88 aircraft stranded at Suvarnabhumi airport to leave, but without any passengers. The planes will move to other local airports to help evacuate travellers.
At least 100,000 foreign visitors are still unable to leave the country since the anti-government activists occupied the airport’s main terminal last week.
Thousands of pro-government protesters also besieged Bangkok on Sunday in a counter-demonstration.
The PAD accuses Mr Somchai’s government of being corrupt and hostile to the country’s much-revered monarchy, and has demanded they resign. They also accuse him of being a proxy of his brother-in-law, exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
On Monday, the prime minister insisted he would not step down.
“I will not quit and I will not dissolve parliament,” he told reporters in the northern city of Chiang Mai.
Source: BBC NEWS
