DHAKA: Tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through the tense Thai capital on Monday in an escalation of mass street rallies aiming to topple prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s embattled government.

The protests against Yingluck and her brother, ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, are the biggest since 2010 when the kingdom was rocked by its worst political bloodshed in decades with more than 90 civilians killed.

The turmoil has raised fears of a fresh bout of street violence in a country that has been convulsed by several episodes of political unrest since royalist generals overthrew Thaksin in a coup in 2006.

Police said more than 30,000 protesters opposed to Yingluck’s elected government marched on more than a dozen state agencies across the capital on Monday including military and police bases, as well as several television stations.

BDST: 1244 HRS, NOV 25, 2013