Canadian journalist 'gravely wounded' in Thai protest: network 
 
 PARIS — A Canadian television cameraman, one of three journalists hurt Friday during clashes in Bangkok, was hit by three bullets from a military assault rifle and "gravely wounded", his network reported. Fighting has now killed 34 people and injured hundreds since the Red Shirts, mostly rural poor, began camping in the capital on March 12, in a bid to force out Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. Among Friday's casualties, a Thai cameraman from the VoiceTV news website was shot in his left thigh and a photographer for Matichon newspaper was shot in the leg, the news outlets said. Nelson Rand, a veteran reporter who was covering fighting between troops and protesters for the France 24 news channel, is being treated in Chulalongkorn hospital in the Thai capital after he was shot. One hit his leg, one his torso and another his wrist, which has multiple fractures. The renegade army general Khattiya, who is accused of creating a paramilitary force for the Red Shirts, was shot in the head while talking to reporters just inside the perimeter of the protesters' encampment. The two-day clashes marked the worst continuous episode of violence since April 10, when 25 people were killed and more than 800 injured in clashes between Red Shirts and troops in Bangkok's historic area.
– A Canadian cameraman was one of three journalists wounded today as Thai troops fired on anti-government protesters and explosions thundered in the heart of Bangkok. An army push to clear the streets and end a two-month political standoff sparked the clashes, the AP reports. The cameraman, Nelson Rand, working for a French TV station, was "gravely wounded" when he was struck by three bullets, AFP reports. Today's unrest began when protesters captured and vandalized two military water cannon trucks at a key intersection in the business district, just outside the Red Shirt encampment. They ripped the cannon from its moorings and used its plastic barrel to shoot firecrackers from behind a sandbag bunker they had commandeered from soldiers, the AP reports. Soldiers used a loudspeaker to send a message to the Red Shirts: "We are the people's army. We are just doing our duty for the nation. Brothers and sisters, let's talk together." But a group of aggressive young protesters approached them on motorcycles and on foot, shouting obscenities and taunting them by taking off their clothes.