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Deadline for women and children
Thai government gives women and children deadline – and buses - to leave protest site
Last Modified: 17 May 2010 04:55 GMT

Women and children have been given a deadline to evacuate central Bangkok where deadly clashes have been taking place.

They have sought shelter in a Buddhist temple within the red shirt protest site ahead of the government deadline to leave the area by bus.

Al Jazeera's Aela Callan reports.
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