Bangkok burns amid Thai protests

A firefighter carries a hose past debris littering a street as smoke rises from a burning building Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/guardian.co.uk A motorcycle taxi driver throws stones to break the windows of a building on fire to allow firefighters to douse the flames Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/guardian.co.uk Firefighters hose down a fire at the site of clashes Photograph: Wally Santana/AP Photograph: Wally Santana/guardian.co.uk A Thai woman comforts her daughter as a fire set by redshirt protesters burns in the background Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/guardian.co.uk A Thai man walks through a ransacked convenience store Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Photograph: Paula Bronstein/guardian.co.uk A monk walks across a sniper fire zone at a clash point Photograph: Wally Santana/AP Photograph: Wally Santana/guardian.co.uk A redshirt leader delivers a speech at an anti-government protest site in central Bangkok Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Christophe Archambault/guardian.co.uk A man rests on a deserted sidewalk Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP Photograph: Wong Maye-E/guardian.co.uk People line up as Red Cross workers hand out food supplies to residents in the Bon Kai area Photograph: Udo Weitz/EPA Photograph: Udo Weitz/guardian.co.uk Children sleep on mats at a temple serving as a temporary shelter Photograph: Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Christophe Archambault/guardian.co.uk An elderly man is helped across a street as he leaves one of the clash points Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP Photograph: Wong Maye-E/guardian.co.uk Workers prepare temporary beds on a school basketball court for those escaping the danger zones Photograph: Narong Sangnak/EPA Photograph: Narong Sangnak/guardian.co.uk Armed soldiers stand behind barbed wire after they restricted access to an area on the fringes of the anti-government protest site Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/guardian.co.uk A protester gathers rubbish to add to a bonfire Photograph: Wong Maye-E/AP Photograph: Wong Maye-E/guardian.co.uk A protester fills the bottle of a handmade bomb Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Photograph: Paula Bronstein/guardian.co.uk Protesters burn tyres to prevent troops shooting at the red zone area of Bon Kai in central Bangkok Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/guardian.co.uk An injured protester is evacuated during clashes with soldiers in Bon Kai Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/guardian.co.uk A protestor carries his slingshot around his neck on Rama IV Road Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/guardian.co.uk Firefighters work to control a blaze set by protesters Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Photograph: Paula Bronstein/guardian.co.uk Soldiers stand in a roadblock around the protest site in central Bangkok Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/guardian.co.uk