Drama at Ramkhamhaeng University, as it happened
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Saturday November 30 8pm: Protesters at Ramkhamhaeng University close the university's rear gates where police were positioned for security purposes. Two gunshots are heard and a Cambodian construction worker, Bun Rattana, 29, is hit by a "stray" bulle
8.30pm: Police say Ramkhamhaeng Soi 24 is closed to traffic.
9pm: More than 300 red-shirt protesters in Rajamangala Stadium clash with anti-government protesters at the university. 300 anti-riot police are called in to keep the two sides apart.
10.22pm: Government-runs twitter @ThaiKhuFah and posts: “The Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (CAPO) wishes to clarify that police were not responsible for the shooting at Ramkhamhaeng University. Police investigations have discovered the shooting was related to a local brawl. Police patrolling the area are unarmed.’’
11pm: Pol Maj Gen Anucha Romayanant, deputy spokesman for CAPO, announces that one man was killed and five others were injured in the shooting. Throughout the night and during the morning, explosions are heard around the university.
8.05am: Red-shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan announces a complete dispersal of protesters at Rajamangala Stadium, claiming four-red shirt protesters had been shot dead.
8.20am: Ramkhamhaeng University Rector Assoc Prof Wuthisak Lapcharoensap says that at around 6am, students were woken by the sound of shooting and explosions. A number of students were seriously injured, but he was unable to confirm the number. Wuthisak says 2,000 students are stranded and should be evacuated as soon as possible.
10.20am: CAPO deputy director Pol Gen Worapong Chiewpreecha says police cannot access the university because the situation is not under control. He says police are trying to arrange BMA buses to get protesters out of the university.
10.30am: Pheu Thai spokesman Prompong Nopparit claims the shootings are the work of an ill-intentioned third party wanting to stir up trouble.
12.00am: Erawan centre reports two dead and 45 injured in the shooting attack on the university.
1pm: Ramkhamhaeng University announces that it will close temporarily until December 3 and suspends all classes, exams and other activities.
2.20pm: Gen Songwit Nunpakdee leads a company of soldiers from the 11th Infantry Regiment King’s Guard to take control of the university area.
2.45pm: Students and protesters are moved out of the campus in eight university buses to a shelter at a Rama 9 temple, before being sent home.
3.50pm: A bus is set on fire in front of Ramkhamhaeng University
