The death toll from anti-government demonstrations in Bangkok has risen to 43 after Thai troops opened fire on protesters.
Thailand’s government announced the number of dead, adding that 1,620 have been injured during the past two months of clashes.
Red-shirt demonstrators are still refusing to leave a fortified area of downtown Bangkok, demanding that the nation’s prime minister calls an immediate election.
In the latest violence, 16 people were killed overnight, as soldiers struggled to isolate an encampment of demonstrators in the city’s commercial district.
The protesters are trying to bring down the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
They threw stones, used slingshots and launched fireworks at the troops, as the two-month standoff descended into more violence.
Troops have blocked roads and set up checkpoints to seal off the area around the wider protest site.
One of the Red Shirts leaders, Kwanchai Praipana, called on the prime minister to resign and vowed: “We’ll keep on fighting.”
But the protester added supplies of food, water and fuel were starting to run low as their delivery trucks were blocked but said they had enough to last “days”.
Earlier, the France 24 news channel said one of its cameramen, Canadian Nelson Rand, had been “gravely wounded” after he was shot while filming the unrest.
Two Thai reporters were also injured.
All those killed in the violence have been Thai nationals, an emergency services official said.
