grenades and beaches

We made it to the beautiful coast in the south, a painful but pretty uneventful 25 hour journey (about 20 of which were on a bus)...but here's a clip from the news about what's happening in Bangkok.  Hopefully things will improve by the time we need to fly out:


A string of grenade attacks targeting state-affiliated facilities occurred in Bangkok on March 28. Unidentified assailants fired two M79 grenades into the compound of the 11th Infantry Regiment headquarters in Bang Khen district on the northern outskirts of Bangkok at around 0400, wounding four soldiers. While one grenade fell on the lawn near the main gate, the other fell on a parked army truck in which some soldiers were sleeping. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has been living and sleeping at the infantary barracks since the start of the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) or "red-shirted" protests on March 14.

A grenade also exploded outside the home of former Prime Minister Banharn Silapa-archa near Soi Charan Sanitwong 57 at around 2220,  injuring one person. Banharn, who was premier from mid-1995 to late-1996, is now chief adviser to Chart Thai Pattana, one of the parties in the government coalition led by Abhisit. A grenade was launched at a Bangkok Bank branch near Soi Borromratchonnanee 24 in Taling Chan area at around 2300.  Earlier in the evening, an unidentified gunman fired several shots at the Bangkok Bank's Saphon Khao branch on Lan Luang Road. No casualties or injuries were reported in both these attacks.