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Globe reporter Mark MacKinnon's exclusive pictures from the frontlines in Bangkok

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People hide behind truck after bullet whizzes through the Wat Patum temple compound.

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Fire at Bangkok's Chidlom skytrain station.

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Some of the hundreds of civilians now hiding in Wat Patum Buddhist temple.

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Thais in temple watch on TV as army approaches.

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Red Shirts gather abandoned food in anticipation of long stay in Wat Patum temple.

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Smoke rises from Bangkok's burning Central World shopping mall.

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Inside Wat Patum as firefight rages outside.

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