Somchai escapes through palace
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat has to flee from the Parliament which is surrounded by anti-government protesters by climbing over fences to nearby Pimanmek Mansion.
Somchai took stairs which leaned on the fences and then climbed over the fence.
Officials of Royal Household Bureau who are in charge of Pimanmek Mansion had to use clothes to cover sharp points of the fences for PM Somchai.
Somchai who just finished policy address in the Parliament cannot leave the compound as the anti-government demonstrators have surrounded the compound and blocked all roads nearby.
Somchai left the compound with his daughter; Shinnicha, who is also MP of People Power Party, and his six aides.
Somchai then boarded a helicopter from Pimanmek Mansion to Supreme Command headquarter on Chang Wattana Road.
However the officials did not allow some MPs of People Power Party who wanted to climb over the fences to Pimanmek Mansion compound.
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