Violence has stepped up on Wednesday after a red-shirt activist and poet was shot dead at a restaurant in Bangkok and two gunmen sprayed bullets into a community radio station in Pathum Thani.
Kamol Duangpasuk, known among the red shirts as Mainueng Kor Kuntee, was gunned down in the parking lot of Krok Mai Thai Lao restaurant on Lat Pla Khao Soi 24 at 2.10pm.
Witnesses said they heard 5-6 gunshots after Mr Kamol left the dining area. They rushed out and found him in the parking lot.
He died at Mayo Hospital.
Kamol, a native of Samut Songkhram's Amphawa district, graduated from Silpakorn University.
He wrote poems for Matichon Weekly and other magazines for several years, some of which were published as books.
Kamol was vocal in his opposition to the 2006 coup and had since appeared on red-shirt stages, reciting his poems.
Earlier, at 10.15pm on Tuesday, two gunmen on a motorcylce shot at the Ruan Thai Radio FM 105.25 MHz station, one of the community radios allied with the red-shirt United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship. No one was hurt.
The station is in Khlong 4, Lum Luk Ka, Pathum Thani.
Police found 23 9mm casings at the scene.
The radio station was attacked earlier on April 13 although it is not connected, owned or run by Ko Tee, a red-shirt DJ charged with lese majeste who was believed to be the target of the attack.