240,000 tourists stranded in Thailand

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Source: CCTV.com | 12-02-2008 13:40

A senior tourism official says there are now 240-thousand stranded foreign tourists in Thailand.

Anti-government protesters continue to paralyze Bangkok's two main airports with sit-ins that began a week ago.

Thai riot policemen patrol next to tourist sleep inside Suvarnabhumi airpor, Bangkok in the early hours of  Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008 after anti government protesters besieged the airport.(AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

The Thai government has designated a hall at Bangkok's International Exhibition Center as the international flight check-in for the U-Ta Pao airport. Located some two hundred kilometers from Bangkok,

U-Ta Pao is serving as a temporary airport. But as a military air base, the available space for passengers is very limited. Meanwhile, attacks continue against the anti-government protesters.

Early on Tuesday, an explosive device outside Bangkok's Don Muang domestic airport was detonated, killing one person and injuring 22.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei