2010-05-21 13:25

A driver reads a newspaper on his tricycle taxi called a 'tuk-tuk' in central Bangkok May 21, 2010. [Agencies]

BANGKOK - All red-shirts protestors have been safely returned to their home provinces from Bangkok, said a director of the Transport Company on Friday.

According to Bangkok Post online, Wutthichart Kalayanamitr said he had received reports that convoys of buses transporting the red-shirts back home had arrived at their destinations without any accidents or violence.

The government arranged buses to send the protesters home, starting Thursday morning.

The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security had given 200 baht cash to each protester to buy food during the journey, Wutthichart said.

The red-shirts returned home after their leaders announced an end of their prolonged rally in downtown Bangkok.