Prasit Saengrungruang
Bangkok Post
SIEM REAP : A coach carrying red shirts from Phom Penh yesterday was in collision with a taxi while on its way home from Saturday's Thai-Cambodian football match, killing the cab driver and wounding seven on the bus.
The taxi was sent skidding until it finally flipped upside down.
Seven red-shirt supporters were rushed to a hospital in Siem Reap, while the taxi driver reportedly succumbed to severe wounds.
Thousands of red-shirts left Thailand for Cambodia on Friday to see United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship leaders and Pheu Thai MPs, as well as former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat, play the friendly football match with Cambodia's team, which was led by Premier Hun Sen and manned with his deputies at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh on Saturday.
The football match was designed to showcase the two countries' improving ties, which had been strained during the Abhisit Vejjajiva government's term due to overlapping territorial claims.
Since the Pheu Thai Party rose to power in July, Hun Sen has expressed interest in a prisoner exchange programme between the two countries.
Among Thai inmates jailed in Cambodia are Veera Somkwamkid, co-leader of anti-Thaksin People's Alliance for Democracy, and his secretary Ratree Pipatanapaiboon, who are serving eight and six-year terms, respectively, on espionage charges from December.
Justice Ministry spokesman Thirachai Wutthitham said yesterday Veera and Ratree could return to Thailand under the agreement to serve more time here.
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