Hej Abshit möttes av dom "röda" som kastade flaskor på hans bil på besök i Lop Buri, detta trots att 1000 poliser vaktade honom. [img height=220 alt=UDD supporter Mayuree Sewatasai denies she will throw this pla ra at the Premier. Photo by SUNTHORN PONGPAO width=415]http://www.bangkokpo...7/c1_137150.jpg By: BangkokPost.com Published: 7/03/2009 at 12:40 PM Red-shirted protesters threw bottles of water at the vehicle carrying Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva when he visited a public health centre in Lop Buri province on Saturday morning.
About 500 supporters of the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) gave the prime minister a hot welcome, booing him and cheering loudly when the plastic bottles hit the target.
About 1,000 police were deployed there.
The protesters, who were waiting for the prime minister outside the Baan Dong Tarn health centre in the Muang district, came from several provinces around Lop Buri including Sing Buri, Ang Thong and Ayutthaya.
Three security checkpoints were set in the province to screen items the red-shirts were carryng.
Mr Abhisit, however, entered the health centre unharmed. The red-shirts tried to follow him inside the health centre, but they could not break through the police lines.
The prime minister, whose grandmother is a Lop Buri native, told people who were there to greet him that he was not angry at the protesters because it was all right for people to have different opinions.
He was scheduled to leave the province before noon.
Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban's visit to Nakhon Nayok province was not as rocky as the prime minister's trip. No red-shirts were there to greet him.
PM's car pelted with bottles, sandals, feet clappersLop Buri - Protesters bombarded the prime minister's car with water bottles, sandals and feet clappers when he was leaving a public health centre Saturday.
The motorcade of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva led the Ban Dong Tan health centre at 11:05 am after the prime minister recorded his weekly TV programme.
During the way back to Bangkok, Abhisit stopped at the Jiffy petrol station and he bought one bottle of energetic drink.
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Mvh Isan Lover
SEEING RED: UDD supporters in Lop Buri throw water bottles at the motorcade of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at the Ban Dong Tan health centre on Saturday. His comment came after a visit to Lop Buri where he faced a protest by UDD supporters who threw plastic water bottles at his motorcade as it arrived at a health centre.