BANGKOK, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A small bomb exploded in a police booth near the occupied compound of Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej early on Monday, shattering nearby windows but injuring nobody, police said.

Police blamed the blast on attack on agitators trying to depict them as incapable of maintaining security in the capital, where the protest occupation of Government House is now in its seventh day.

"They want to show that the government and the police are too weak to protect the people," national police spokesman Surapol Thuanthong told Reuters. "It is something we expected would have happened." (Reporting by Chalathip Thirasoonthrakul; Writing by Nopporn Wong-Anan; Editing by Ed Cropley and David Fox)

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