Thailand and Cambodia, the ongoing conflict, continued to escalate with two border nations, which on Saturday third on Saturday third, causing the number of victims to rise to 33, leaving more than 168,000 displaced from their homes extended across the border.
On Saturday afternoon, the explosions of the sky broke out when clashes for the first time in the coastal areas of rival nations where they meet in the Gulf of Thai.
“It’s as if I escaped the war zone,” a 76 -year -old farmer, Senlee Sornchai, described the situation AFP, while in a temple shelter for evacuated in the Thai city of Kantharom, he left his farm near the border.
4. The Cambodian Defense Ministry said 13 people were killed in the fight, including eight civilians and five soldiers, with 71 people injured.
5. The Thai authorities said that 13 civilians and seven soldiers were killed on their side, while both countries higher than the last main round of fighting between 2008 and 2011.
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“We are neighbors, we want to be friends,” said one 50 -year -old AFP in the temple of hiding in Phunumi Bak Thkav. “But they attack us.
7. After meeting the UN Security Council in New York, the Cambodian Ambassador of the UN CHHEA Keo said his country wanted a ceasefire. “Cambodia asked for an immediate ceasefire – unconditionally – and we also require a peaceful solution of a dispute,” he told reporters.
8. On Friday, Thailand declared “combat law” in eight of its districts bordering on Cambodia after two nations were involved in deadly clashes.
9. Pig preahur vihear and pigs that Men Thom, both Hindu Khmer temples about 95 miles apart, are two of the key places where tension has expanded on Thursday.
10. The previous most deadly clashes broke out between 2008 and 2011 – left at least 28 people dead.
(Tagstotranslate) Thailand
