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Thai July election unlikely as renewed unrest grips Bangkok

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Reuters
A Thai general election is unlikely to go ahead in July after renewed unrest, officials said on Thursday, as the acting prime minister was forced by protesters to flee a meeting with electoral officers and gunmen killed three people in Bangkok.

The turmoil comes as a government loyal to ousted former PM Thaksin Shinawatra squares off with opponents backed by the royalist establishment over who should be prime minister in the latest phase of nearly a decade of rivalry.

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First Published: May 15 2014 | 11:14 PM IST

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