Maj-Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol has swelling of the brain and has little chance of surviving, Dr Chaiwan Charoenchokethawee, director of Vajira Hospital, said on Friday.
"His chance of survival is quite low," Dr Chaiwan said in a television interview.
Dr Chaiwan said Seh Daeng was on life support and still unconscious. Medical teams were monitoring his condition minute by minute.
He confirmed that Maj-Gen Khattiya was shot once through the temple.
Surgeons had operated to remove blood clots fromhis brain and reduce the swelling, he said.
Seh Daeng, a renegade army specialist and a supporter of convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was shot in the head near Lumpini Park on Thursday night as security forces isolated the red-shirt's Ratchaprasong rally site. He was hit seconds after giving an interview to a group of foreign reporters.
Dramatic footage of him lying wounded and motionless on the ground were shown on CNN news.
Unconfirmed reports said the bullet exited through the back of his neck.
The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) claims the government's Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) had ordered the attempt on Seh Daeng's life.
"We [the UDD] believe a sniper deployed by the CRES was behind the attack on Seh Daeng," UDD core member Kwanchai Praipana said on the main stage at the protest venue at Ratchaprasong commercial district on Friday morning.
"The sniper fired at him from one of the tall buildings opposite Lumpini Park, such as the Bangkok Bank, CP Tower, Chulalongkorn hospital and the HSBC.
"The attack on Seh Daeng will not dishearten the red-shirts but will add to the pressure on the government, and there will be more red-shirts joining our rally."
The CRES denied having a hand in the attack, blaming it on an "invisible hand".
CRES spokesman Col Sansern Kaewkamnerd said CRES had no plan to kill Maj-Gen Khattiya.
He admitted that it would be hard to identify the shooter.
"It will be hard to arrest the 'invisible hand' but authorities will try their best to find the shooter," he said.
A similar situation happened with the soldier who was shot dead at the National Memorial last month.
The dead soldier was identified as Pvt Narongrit Sala, from Buri Ram, who was shot in the head while riding a motorcycle towards the National Memorial during clashes between troops and red-shirt protesters on April 28.
From : Bangkok Post
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