Four Thai men jailed for life over 2014 grenade attack

[WorldNews]

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A Thai court on Friday sentenced four men to life imprisonment over the death of three people, including two children, in a grenade attack in Bangkok last year during anti-government protests. The February 2014 explosion in a bustling downtown shopping district shocked the kingdom with its young victims -- a brother and sister, aged four and six -- during nearly seven months of often violent protests against then premier Yingluck Shinawatra's administration. The army seized power three months later, justifying the now ruling military junta's coup as necessary to end the demonstrations that brought large parts of the city to a standstill and virtually paralysed the government.

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