Red guards 'attack' media interpreter

Piyawit Puttakesorn, 30, said he worked as an interpreter for a Czech television station and Malaysian Star magazine, covering the anti-government protests.

While hailing a taxi near Chulalongkorn Hospital at 11.30pm, a red-shirt guard approached to search his bag, but he resisted. Then more red guards showed up and snatched the bag away from Piyawit after punching him in the face and hitting his head with a hard object.

Piyawit told police that he could recognise two of the red guards.

Lt-Colonel Pirom Jantrapirom of Lumpini Police Station said he had already recorded the data and would hunt down the accused.