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Cambodia’s defence ministry has condemned what it known as Thailand’s “reckless and brutal navy aggression” on Cambodia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The ministry added that Thai fighter jets had been deployed and dropped two bombs on a street, as cited by Reuters and reported earlier.
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Thailand ‘closing border’ with Cambodia
Thailand is closing all border factors with Cambodia, Reuters is quoting a Thai navy official as saying.
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Pictures are arriving over the information wires of Thais fleeing as we speak’s clashes between Thai and Cambodian troops.
Thai folks take shelter in Surin province, north-eastern Thailand, on Thursday. {Photograph}: Sunny Chittawil/APThais sheltering in Surin province after fleeing the preventing. {Photograph}: Sunny Chittawil/APShare
Up to date at 01.21 EDT
Cambodia’s defence ministry has confirmed Thai airstrikes on the nation, saying Thailand used fighter jets to drop two bombs on a street.
Reuters additionally quotes the Cambodian defence ministry as accusing Thailand of violating an settlement with Cambodia and opening fireplace on the Cambodian military.
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Up to date at 01.17 EDT
Cambodia’s defence ministry has not instantly responded to a Reuters request for affirmation of Thailand’s declare of airstrikes in opposition to Cambodian navy targets.
The Thai military stated an F-16 fighter jet was deployed in opposition to Cambodia’s navy on Thursday as weeks of pressure over a border dispute escalated into preventing.
The military stated that of the six F-16s that Thailand had ready to deploy alongside the disputed border, one of many fighter jets fired into Cambodia and destroyed a navy goal.
Each international locations have accused one another of beginning Thursday’s conflict.
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Up to date at 01.10 EDT
Thailand ‘launches airstrikes’ on Cambodian targets
The Thai military says it has launched airstrikes on two Cambodian navy targets, information businesses are reporting.
“We’ve got used air energy in opposition to navy targets as deliberate,” Thai military deputy spokesperson Richa Suksuwanon informed reporters.
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Up to date at 00.52 EDT
Thailand’s military stated of Thursday’s preliminary conflict that its forces heard an unmanned aerial car earlier than seeing six armed Cambodian troopers shifting nearer to Thailand’s station.
It stated Thai troopers tried to shout at them to defuse the scenario however the Cambodian facet began to open fireplace, the AP reported.
Cambodia’s defence ministry stated Thailand began the armed conflict and Cambodia “acted strictly throughout the bounds of self-defence, responding to an unprovoked incursion by Thai troops that violated our territorial integrity”.
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Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet has stated Thailand attacked Cambodian military positions at Prasat Ta Moan Thom and Prasat Ta Krabey in Oddar Meanchey province and expanded to the realm alongside Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province and Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani province.
“Cambodia has all the time maintained a place of peaceable decision of issues,” he stated, quoted by the Related Press. “However on this case, now we have no selection however to reply with armed power in opposition to armed aggression.”
Each Thailand and Cambodia have accused one another of opening fireplace first in a contested border space on Thursday.
Cambodian PM Hun Manet.
{Photograph}: AP/Agence Kampuchea PressShare
Up to date at 00.37 EDT
Additional to the final publish, Thailand’s second military area has stated on social media that one F-16 has been deployed for motion in opposition to Cambodia’s navy alongside their border and the fighter jet is amongst six being readied, Reuters is reporting.
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Up to date at 00.25 EDT
Thailand deploys F-16 fighters to frame – navy
Thailand’s navy says it has deployed F-16 fighter jets in opposition to Cambodia within the border space, Reuters is reporting.
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Up to date at 00.20 EDT
A Thai military official has been quoted by Reuters as saying the navy is readying to deploy six F-16 fighter jets alongside the Cambodian border.
Extra on this with regards to hand.
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Two killed in Cambodian shelling, says Thai official
No less than two Thai civilians have been killed and two others injured by the shelling from the Cambodian facet on Thursday, a Thai district official informed Reuters.
About 40,000 civilians from 86 villages in Thailand have been evacuated to safer places, the district chief of Kabcheing in Surin province, Sutthirot Charoenthanasak, informed the information company.
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Up to date at 00.08 EDT
Thai embassy urges nationals to depart Cambodia over border clashes
Agence France-Presse is reporting that Thailand’s embassy has urged nationals to depart Cambodia over the border clashes.
It comes after Thailand recalled its ambassador to Cambodia on Wednesday and stated it might expel Cambodia’s envoy in Bangkok, after a second Thai soldier within the area of every week misplaced a limb to a landmine within the disputed space.
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Good day and welcome to our dwell protection of clashes on the Thai-Cambodia border.
Thai and Cambodian troopers have fired at one another in a contested border space on Thursday, after the nations downgraded their diplomatic relations in a quickly escalating dispute.
It was not instantly clear if the conflict was ongoing. A livestream video from Thailand’s facet confirmed folks operating from their properties and hiding in a concrete bunker Thursday morning as explosions sounded periodically.
The conflict occurred in an space the place the traditional Prasat Ta Muen Thom temple stands alongside the border of Thailand’s Surin province and Cambodia Oddar Meanchey province.
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