Thailand has carried out air strikes on military targets in Cambodia, the Thai army reported on Monday morning. Both countries accuse each other of violating the ceasefire that was partly brokered by the United States.
Thailand said the attacks were in response to fighting on the ground in recent days, where Cambodia reportedly opened fire, killing at least one Thai soldier and wounding four other soldiers. Cambodia denies having started and says that Thai troops attacked first.
It is not yet known whether there were any casualties in the air raids and what damage was caused. Thailand reported on Monday that more than 385,000 citizens are being evacuated from four border districts. More than 35,000 people are now staying in emergency shelters.
Ceasefire
In July, at least 48 people were killed and hundreds of thousands fled during five days of intense fighting between Thailand and Cambodia. A ceasefire was agreed after mediation by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and US President Trump.
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At the end of October, the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia signed an extension to that agreement in the presence of Trump in Kuala Lumpur.
The countries have been at loggerheads for more than a century because of the border that colonial power France drew at the time without taking historical sensitivities into account.
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