BANGKOK, April 23 (Reuters) - Thailand's stock market fell nearly 2 percent at one stage on Friday as the country's top broker warned escalating political violence could lead to civil war and anyone buying Thai shares now was taking "a huge risk".
Riot police confronted "red shirt" anti-government protesters at a barricade in Bangkok's business district on Friday, a day after grenade attacks in the area killed at least one person, but pulled back without violence.
"The government is far from controlling the situation," Kim Eng Securities said in a note to clients.
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