Anti-government protesters hold posters of victims of a recent bomb blast, six-year-old Patcharakorn Yosubon (left) and her brother four-year-old Koravitch Yosubon (center), as they march in a rally outside the national police headquarters in Bangkok on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO\ Kevin Lau, former editor of the Ming Pao newspaper, speaking to the media outside the Ming Pao Building in the Chai Wan district of Hong Kong island. AFP PHOTO
Anti-government protesters hold posters of victims of a recent bomb blast, six-year-old Patcharakorn Yosubon (left) and her brother four-year-old Koravitch Yosubon (center), as they march in a rally outside the national police headquarters in Bangkok on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO

BANGKOK: Gunmen opened fire near several opposition protest sites in Bangkok on Wednesday, stoking tensions in the capital as Thailand’s embattled prime minister flew to her political stronghold in the north.

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