Blast kills one at Bangkok airport
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One man has been killed in an explosion at Bangkok's domestic airport, where thousands of anti-Government protesters continue to camp out.
Local reports say the blast happened just after midnight at the Don Muang domestic airport, which has been occupied since Wednesday of last week.
Reports from the scene say the bomb or grenade might have come from an elevated toll road leading to the airport on Bangkok's outskirts.
The protest is part of a last-ditch campaign by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to force the government out.
The city's new international airport is also shut down by protesters but airport authorities and PAD leaders have agreed a deal which will let 88 stranded planes leave.
There have been a series of low-level grenade attacks against the protesters during their six-month campaign to oust the Government.
The government house compound - where protesters have been been for more than three months - has been targeted in at least six times in the past month, including one fatal attack.
The police have been unable to find out who is responsible for any of the attacks.
The explosion at Don Muang airport came just hours after PAD members ended a three-month sit-in at the Prime Minister's offices in Bangkok following a series of grenade attacks.
The hundreds of protesters abandoning the Premier's offices moved to Don Muang and the main Suvarnabhumi international airport.
PAD leaders said protesters would leave Government House and reinforce the airport vigils, while the official premises would be handed back to the Government on Tuesday morning.
- ABC/AFP
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