Anti-government demonstrators blocked polling stations in Bangkok and several southern provinces Sunday, preventing voters from casting advance ballots a week ahead of the scheduled general elections.
Thailand's premier called a snap election Monday to try to defuse the kingdom's political crisis but protesters kept up their fight to topple her government with an estimated 100,000 demonstrators flooding the streets of Bangkok.
The United States voiced regret Monday that several people have been killed in clashes rocking Thailand and urged the opposition and beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to hold talks to end the political crisis.