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Border clash between Thai-Cambodian troops resumes
SURIN, April 23 (TNA) - Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged heavy weapons fire on a disputed border area near the ancient Preah Vihear Temple again on Saturday morning, a day after a bloody clash reportedly left six soldiers dead, three each on both sides, and more than a dozen other people wounded; while thousands of villagers were evacuated from the battle zone.
A Thai army spokesman in the border region, Colonel Prawit Hookaew, said that the fresh fighting, with rifles and mortar shelling, started at around 6am local time.
Thai Army Spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd reported that the latest border clash erupted at Ta Kwai and nearby Ta Muan Thom Temples in Phnom Dongrak District of Thailand's northeastern Surin Province, the same point where the gunfight took place on Friday morning.
According to the army spokesman, there has been no report on any casualty and injury from the fresh clash so far. A village headman in Phnom Dongrak said Cambodian soldiers, again, started firing at Thai troops with heavy weapons and machineguns. Thai officials in Phnom Dongrak said both sides engaged in Saturday’s artillery duel until about 8am.
The new spate of border clashes between the Thai and Cambodian troops was their first, and most serious, since their four-day skirmishes in February this year, leaving some 10 soldiers and civilians on both sides killed. Border clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers have erupted from time to time since 2008, mostly related to the 11th-century Preah Vihear Temple issues. (TNA)
A Thai army spokesman in the border region, Colonel Prawit Hookaew, said that the fresh fighting, with rifles and mortar shelling, started at around 6am local time.
Thai Army Spokesman Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd reported that the latest border clash erupted at Ta Kwai and nearby Ta Muan Thom Temples in Phnom Dongrak District of Thailand's northeastern Surin Province, the same point where the gunfight took place on Friday morning.
According to the army spokesman, there has been no report on any casualty and injury from the fresh clash so far. A village headman in Phnom Dongrak said Cambodian soldiers, again, started firing at Thai troops with heavy weapons and machineguns. Thai officials in Phnom Dongrak said both sides engaged in Saturday’s artillery duel until about 8am.
The new spate of border clashes between the Thai and Cambodian troops was their first, and most serious, since their four-day skirmishes in February this year, leaving some 10 soldiers and civilians on both sides killed. Border clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers have erupted from time to time since 2008, mostly related to the 11th-century Preah Vihear Temple issues. (TNA)
