3-Bomb kills one protester at Thai airport

A grenade killed an anti-government protester at Bangkok\'s blockaded Don Muang airport on Tuesday, hours before a vote fraud case that could force the prime minister and much of his cabinet to resign.

Thai media said an M79 grenade was fired from a flyover near the domestic airport, occupied along with the main international airport by the People\'s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) in its escalating campaign to topple the government.

Around 22 people were wounded in the airport attack shortly after midnight. An emergency services official said 17 had already been discharged from hospital. The electoral fraud case was to have been heard at the Constitutional Court in Bangkok but the authorities moved it after hundreds of red-shirted government supporters surrounded the building early on Tuesday.
The final hearing in the case was now due to start at 10 a.m. at Bangkok\'s Administrative Court. A Reuters reporter said at least two trucks started ferrying government supporters to that court when news of the change of venue emerged. Fears of violent clashes, or worse, are growing.

\'It now seems that violence cannot be avoided. Some even predict what has been unthinkable for 700 years: a civil war,\' the Bangkok Post said in an editorial.

It also asked: \'Does Thailand have a functioning government?\'