Thai military reports clash with Cambodian troops at disputed border area

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The clash is the latest successful a long-running deadly borderline quality betwixt the Southeast Asian neighbours.

A clash has taken spot betwixt Thai and Cambodian troops astatine a disputed country of their border, Thailand’s subject has said.

In a statement, the Thai subject said Cambodian troops opened occurrence successful an country adjacent the disputed Ta Moan Thom temple – located connected the countries’ shared borderline successful northwestern Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey Province – aboriginal connected Thursday.

It said Cambodia had deployed a surveillance drone earlier sending troops to the country with dense weapons.

In May, a long-running borderline quality betwixt Thailand and Cambodia boiled implicit into subject clashes that near one Cambodian worker dead.

The continuing borderline quality has soured relations betwixt the Southeast Asian neighbours, with the 2 sides trading barbs and tit-for-tat retaliatory measures, including the closure of borderline crossings.

Cambodia has besides blocked imports of substance and gas, arsenic good arsenic effect and vegetables, from Thailand.

Most recently, connected Wednesday, a Thai worker sustained injuries and mislaid his close limb successful a landmine incident.

In response, Thailand’s governing Pheu Thai Party said it had recalled Thailand’s ambassador to Cambodia and volition expel Cambodia’s ambassador from the country. Thailand has besides downgraded diplomatic relations with Cambodia, the enactment said.

In response, Cambodia has withdrawn each of its diplomats from Thailand and ordered each Thai diplomats to permission the country.

The Cambodian authorities besides downgraded diplomatic relations with Thailand to the “lowest level”, reducing it to the fertile of “second secretary”, according to section quality outlet the Phnom Penh Post.

Earlier, Thailand had accused Cambodia of placing landmines connected the Thai broadside of the disputed borderline country betwixt Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani Province and Cambodia’s Preah Vihear Province, aft 3 soldiers were injured portion connected a patrol connected July 16.

Cambodia claims the soldiers, 1 of whom mislaid his ft successful the explosion, veered disconnected agreed routes and triggered a excavation near down from decades of war.

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