The founder of Thailand's "Yellow Shirt" political protest movement left hospital under tight security on Saturday, just over a week after he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt.
Media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul, who led a crippling blockade of Bangkok's airports last year, was discharged from a Bangkok hospital and headed home.
Gunmen in pick-up trucks sprayed automatic gunfire at Sondhi's car in the capital on April the 17th, wounding him, his driver and an aide.
Sondhi underwent surgery to remove a bullet fragment from his skull.
"He left in his own car with many policemen escorting him," a hospital worker said.
His People's Alliance for Democracy movement has blamed "men in uniform" for the attack, and the country's army chief has admitted that three of the bullets used came from the military.
Sondhi founded the PAD in 2006 to oppose then-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, holding huge rallies that opened the way for the military to topple Thaksin in a coup.
The movement wears yellow as a sign of loyalty to the country's revered king.
