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Riot police shoot rubber bullets at crowd protesting APEC (Video)

As the APEC summit in Bangkok continues, there were scenes of melee outside the meeting venue as riot police shot rubber bullets at protesters this morning.

At around 10:15am, riot police clashed with protesters near the capital’s Democracy Monument as they tried to march across town to the APEC summit’s main venue, Queen Sirikit National Convention Center. They dispersed the crowd with batons and rubber bullets.

Youth-led anti-government group Thalufah said at around noon at least six activists had been arrested.

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