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A motorcycle thrust walk the constabulary detention motortruck was enactment connected occurrence during a protestation successful Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2021. Protesters demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and for portion of the fund for the monarchy and the subject to beryllium redirected into the combat against the coronavirus. Many radical blasted Prayuth and his medication for failing to make an capable vaccination policy. (AP Photo/Nathathida Adireksarn)

BANGKOK – Thai riot constabulary connected Saturday fired h2o cannons, teardrop state and rubber bullets to repel a assemblage of respective 100 young anti-government protestors who marched connected an service basal wherever Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has his residence to request his resignation.

The demonstrators threw rocks, bottles, fireworks and fired slingshots during the hourslong confrontation successful the Din Daeng country of Bangkok, which was obscured by swirling smoke.

The rally was led by the Free Youth, a pupil protestation radical that drew tens of thousands to its protests past year. It's demanding Prayuth’s resignation implicit his handling of the coronavirus crisis, which has seen the fig of cases spiraling and the wellness attraction strategy stretched to the limit. Prayuth has been criticized for a dilatory vaccination program.

Thailand reported a caller precocious of 21,838 confirmed cases connected Saturday, with 212 much deaths. Bangkok and surrounding provinces person been nether lockdown, including overnight curfew, for weeks.

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According to the city’s Erawan Medical Center exigency services, 5 radical were hospitalized, including 3 constabulary officers. The march was called disconnected successful the aboriginal evening but disturbances continued, with protesters battling the constabulary and hurling objects.

The protesters are besides calling for portion of the fund for the monarchy and the subject to beryllium redirected into the COVID-19 fight.

Saturday’s protestation was primitively planned successful an country adjacent the Grand Palace successful the aged portion of the superior but switched to the compound of the 1st Infantry Regiment, wherever Prayuth – a erstwhile wide who primitively took powerfulness successful a 2014 coup – continues to live.

The protestation question began past twelvemonth with demands for sweeping governmental change, including unprecedented nationalist calls for the betterment of the almighty monarchy to marque it much accountable.

After going dormant owed to prosecutions, interior disagreements and the pandemic, protests person returned successful caller weeks, fueled by the increasing discontent implicit the government's effect to the wellness situation and its monolithic interaction connected the economy, which is reliant connected tourism.

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