Bangkok: At least two people were killed and 90 injured on Monday when Thai troops fought pitched battles and opened fire on demonstrators here as former Premier Thaksin Shinwatra accused the embattled Prime Minister of "covering up" deaths in the army crackdown.
According to government and hospital sources two men were killed in protests.
Minister to the Prime Minister's Office Sathit Wongnongtoey said a man had been gunned down in Bangkok's Nang Lerng area in the evening after a street gunbattle.
"One hour ago there was a serious clash near Government House between protesters and local residents," cabinet minister Satit Wonghnongtaey said on local television.
The man identified as Pom, 54, was among local residents who clashed with anti-government protesters.
Hospital sources said that a 19-year-old man had also been killed.
Despite a state of emergency declared in the Thai capital, demonstrators, demanding Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's unconditional resignation, commandeered at least two buses, rigged the steering wheels and sent them toward police officers -- who fired at the vehicles in response.
"They trapped the people... Many people died... They even take the dead bodies up on the truck and take them away.
They are trying to confuse everything," Thaksin, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006, told CNN from an undisclosed location.