An anti-government protest leader has been killed and 11 people
wounded amid a siege of polling stations in Thailand's capital, Bangkok,
by demonstrators seeking to disrupt advance voting for next weekend's
controversial general election. 
The death occurred on Sunday, when anti-government demonstrators
surrounded dozens of polling stations in Bangkok and several southern
provinces to stop advance voting for next week's vote, chaining gates
shut, threatening voters and preventing hundreds of thousands of people
from casting ballots. 
As the disrupted polls closed on Sunday afternoon, Suthin
Tharathin - a leader of the Dharma Army, a Buddhist organisation which has been prominent in the anti-government demonstrations - was shot as he stood on the back of a pick-up vehicle in the Bangkok suburb of Bang Na.
The February 2 election was called by Yingluck Shinawatra, the prime minister, to try to calm rising political tensions after weeks of mass anti-government protests.
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