BANGKOK — A major hospital in Bangkok evacuated hundreds of its patients Friday and shut down all but emergency services after scores of soccer jerseys antigovernment protesters, some wielding sharpened sticks, pushed their way inside and roamed the halls in what they said was a hunt for soldiers who might be hiding there.
The men, who have been camping nearby, withdrew empty-handed and protest leaders quickly apologized, distancing themselves from the raid, which was an embarrassment to a movement that portrays itself as nonviolent.
Dr. Adisorn Patradul, director of the Chulalongkorn University Hospital, said all but 2 of its 500 patients were either discharged or transferred to other hospitals. By evening, the hospital was dark and silent except for one emergency room.
Some, however, continued to wander just outside the hospitals gates, occasionally mingling with the police who were eating and reading newspapers. An injured man arrived at the closed main gate propped on the back of a motorcycle; the police directed him to the emergency room at the back of the hospital.
On Friday, red shirt protesters in the northeastern city of Khon Kaen, a antigovernment stronghold, blocked an exit road from the local airport and prevented a pro-government leader, Tul Sittisomwong, from traveling to address a rally. He returned to Bangkok on the next flight.
The recent violent incidents have fed a perception among many middle-class Bangkok residents that the protesters, who have turned the city’s most glittering commercial district into their own guarded encampment, are a destructive force.
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