One more civilian fatality yesterday, bringing overall deaths to 23
Her Majesty the Queen yesterday graciously paid a private visit to soldiers who sustained injuries in last Saturday's clashes and are being treated at Phramongkutklao Hospital.
The April 10 violence has caused many deaths on both sides.
One more fatality was reported yesterday, bringing the total to 23, according to the Bangkok Emergency Medical Service and the Erawan Centre of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
Centre director Dr Phetpong Kamjornkitjakarn said the latest reported death was a 49-year-old civilian, Saming Taengphet. He was shot in the head during the clashes and died later at Chulalongkorn Hospital.
So far, fatalities have been listed on the centre's website, including Mana
Arjran, 21, a Dusit Zoo employee. He is believed to be a casualty of political violence, although the cause of his death at the zoo late on Saturday night is pending Dusit police station's inves
tigation.
The investigation is under way but the result is not yet available as more witnesses are to be interrogated, according to Pol Lt-Colonel Tinnakorn Somwandee, deputy chief of the station and chief of the investigation.
The centre also reported that 191 casualties continued to receive treatment at 15 hospitals in Bangkok. Of these, eight are under special care in intensive care units.
Meanwhile, Suwannee Putla, a female red-shirt protester who sustained a severe gunshot wound to the heart during the clash, miraculously survived after undergoing surgery at Rajavithi Hospital, said hospital director Dr Warunee Jinarat.
The 55-year-old patient is safe now, but remains in the hospital's ICU to receive treatment, Warunee said.
A sharp piece of metal was found embedded in Suwannee's lower-right heart wall. She also suffered bleeding in her pericardium and blood loss. And it was hard to take her pulse when she was taken to the hospital last Saturday after the clash took place.
Warunee said the patient could do some activities, including eating.
The director said Suwannee was saved because a team of the hospital's doctors had been able to provide immediate surgery.
