Two people injured near protest site in Thailand

Fresh violence in the Thai capital city of Bangkok has left two people injured as protests against the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra continue.

Police said that a 31-year-old woman was shot while walking on the street and a taxi driver was injured in the leg while driving near Lumpini Park on Friday.

Anti-government demonstrators have occupied the park in the heart of Bangkok.

Police Col. Chaiya Kongsub said that bullets came from inside the park, but did not specify who fired the shots.

Meanwhile, Bangkok’s Erawan emergency medical services said both victims were released from hospital.

Thailand has been the scene of mass street protests since November 2013 with the demonstrators calling on Yingluck to step down, so that an unelected “people’s council” could enact reforms.

The anti-government protesters, who had been occupying major intersections across the Thai capital since mid January, consolidated their rally to a single venue, Lumpini, this week. The move came as the demonstrators said they wanted to reduce the impact of the protests on city residents.

More than 20 people have been killed and over 700 others wounded in violence linked to anti-government protests in the Asian country.

Recent protests in Thailand were triggered on October 31, 2013, when the government proposed an amnesty bill that could have pardoned the prime minister’s brother and former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, setting the scene for his return to the country.

Yingluck opponents say her administration is actually controlled by her brother who fled Thailand in 2008 to avoid a two-year prison sentence over corruption.