Coup in Thailand

This evening in Thailand there has been an attempted coup by the army. Details are sketchy at this time as Thai television stations are not broadcasting live news or programming and live news is speculative at best.

BBC News' story on the events.

As some of you may or may not know, my fiance is Thai and lives in Bangkok. She's safe and at home, but as she said this is not good for Thailand.

I had been reading about coup rumors for the past couple days and with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra out of the country the rumors had intensified. There currently in Bangkok is a state of emergency declared (by the Prime Minister) and businesses have been closed.

At this point its wait and see. I'm off to check the Thai ex-pat boards for any news. I'll update if I find anything pertinent.

Update:

On one of the expat boards one of the posters said that on local television, an announcement was made that

"that the army and the police have taken control of things in view of all the uncertainty and arguments going on in the country with the temporary government in place. They will not form a government and they will look after things until the election. (Scheduled for October 15th)and have requested peacefulness and co operation from the population." - from a Thai-visa poster

Update 2:

This Yahoo news story has the most up to date information so far on the coup.

Update 3:

This site has updated information from the start of events today.