Via The Telegraph:
Thai police fired rubber bullets to quell violent demonstrations aimed at the overthrow of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday, as the government sought to arrest the leader of the protests for “insurrection”.
As Ms Yingluck rejected an ultimatum to step down, ongoing clashes between police and demonstrators attempting to storm Government House became increasingly ugly, with groups of masked young men using catapults to hurl rocks at security forces.
A police truck was hijacked and used as a battering ram in an unsuccessful effort to break through the concrete barriers blocking the roads to Government House, the seat of Ms Yingluck.
Police responded by firing rubber bullets, despite a pledge not to use violence against the protestors, as well as employing water cannons and discharging barrage after barrage of tear gas.