Thailand and Cambodian soldiers fired at each other in a border area on Thursday after their civilians killed. It was not clear if the clash was ongoing. A video from Thailand’s side confirmed people running from their homes and hiding in a concrete bunker on Thursday to save themselves from explosions.
Thailand, Cambodian Confict
The conflict took place in a place where the historical Prasat Ta Muen Thom temple stands alongside the border of Thailand’s Surin province and Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province. Both Thailand and Cambodia accused each other of opening fire first.
Earlier Thursday, Cambodia stated it was downgrading diplomatic relations with Thailand to their lowest level. It expels the Thai ambassador and recalling all Cambodian staff from its embassy in Bangkok. That was in reaction to Thailand closing its northeastern border crossings with Cambodia, taking flight its ambassador and expelling the Cambodian ambassador to protest a land mine blast that wounded 5 Thai infantrymen.
Cambodian soldier killed in army war
Relations between the Southeast Asian neighbours have deteriorated sharply on the grounds that May. Cambodian soldier was killed in an armed war of words in any other of the several small patches of land each international locations declares as its own territory.
The Thailand army said of Thursday’s clash that its forces heard an unmanned aerial car before seeing six armed Cambodian squaddies moving towards Thailand’s station. It said Thai squaddies tried to shout at them to defuse the situation, however, the Cambodian side started to open fire.
Cambodia’s Defence Ministry said Thailand began the armed clash and Cambodia “acted strictly in the bounds of self-defence, responding to an unprovoked incursion by Thai troops that violated our territorial integrity.”
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