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"The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will seek arrest warrants for 18 more people involved in the recent political clashes, including a man suspected of shooting dead an Army colonel who was leading the operations on April 10.

DSI director-general Tharit Pengdit said that though arrest warrants have already been issued for many red-shirt leaders and hardliners, there are still more provincial leaders of the movement and members of its armed group in Bangkok who are wanted by the authorities.

A DSI source said these 18 people would be the fourth batch of red-shirt figures facing arrest. The latest group includes a man suspected of killing Colonel Romklao Thuwatham, who was leading a crowd-dispersal operation at Bangkok's Khok Wua intersection on April 10, the source said.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Maj Gen Sumet Ruangsawat, who is leading a police investigation team looking into the April 10 incident, said yesterday that the investigators had identified all the suspects. However, he declined to disclose further details for fear the probe would be affected.

Sumet said on Monday, his team would provide information to the DSI about their findings. He said that once it was armed with sufficient evidence, the DSI would seek arrest warrants for all the armed men in black who took part in the April 10 riots. He added that police were also studying security-camera footage showing people trying to set fire to Central World, in order to determine the identities.

In a related development, the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation yesterday resolved to continue with the state of emergency in Bangkok and 23 other provinces. Metropolitan Police spokesman Maj-General Piya Uthayo told a press conference that the emergency decree was required to facilitate the authorities' operation in areas where the red-shirt movement remained active.

He said community radio stations in certain areas were still spreading distorted facts in a bid to incite hatred. The spokesman said the state of emergency should not affect the everyday life of the general public."

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