US EditionThailand says Cambodian rocket fire has caused its first civilian death in new border fighting
The first civilian death occurred amid over two dozen fatalities and mass displacement in weeklong clashes fueled by disputed border land claims, officials said.
- On Sunday, Thailand's government said a Cambodian rocket killed 63-year-old Thai villager Don Patchapan near a school in Sisaket province's Kantharalak District, with reporters finding shrapnel about 10 minutes after.
- Longstanding territorial disputes over frontier land with centuries-old temple ruins and a Dec. 7 skirmish that wounded two Thai soldiers escalated fighting despite a Malaysia-brokered ceasefire formalized in October.
- Cambodian forces have fired thousands of rockets daily from BM-21 rocket launchers with 30-40 kilometer range, while Thailand carried out fighter-plane airstrikes and both sides used drones for bombing and surveillance on Sunday.
- The fighting has killed more than two dozen people and displaced over half a million, with the Thai military acknowledging 15 troop deaths and estimating at least 221 Cambodian fatalities, which the Cambodian government denounced as disinformation.
- Diplomatic efforts brokered by Malaysia unraveled as a Thai Navy warship joined fighting Saturday, with Donald Trump saying Friday the ceasefire was renewed but Anutin Charnvirakul denied commitment.
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A Thai civilian was killed on Sunday by rocket bursts fired by Cambodian forces, according to Bangkok.
The border fighting between Thailand and Cambodia continued on Sunday, with 27 people entering the conflict in its second week, after Bangkok denied a ceasefire. The Thai Ministry of Health reported that a 63-year-old civilian was killed, Sunday, during border clashes with Cambodia, in the first civilian death in the country since the renewed conflict a week ago. Thus, the death toll of the clashes of 7 December this year rose to at least 27 peo…
Thailand accuses Cambodia of missile strike that killed first civilianThailand said a Cambodian missile strike caused the first confirmed civilian death in border fighting. A 63-year-old villager was killed on Sunday by shelling in Kantharalak district of Sisaket province.
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