At least six people have been injured in gun battles in Bangkok between government opponents
and supporters, a day before Thailand's general election.
Journalists and members of the public raced for cover as protesters with handguns and rifles
traded fire.
The demonstrators, who want Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to quit, were trying to blockade
a building where ballot papers are being stored.
The main opposition Democrat Party is not standing in the election.
The Democrats, allied to the protesters, have been unable to win an electoral majority for two
decades.
They want the government to be replaced by an unelected "people's council", which would oversee
wide reform of the political system.
Demonstrators accuse the prime minister of being under the control of her brother, ousted former
leader Thaksin Shinawatra, who lives in self-imposed exile...........
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