Cambodia-Thailand border clashes send half a million into shelters

Half a cardinal evacuees successful Cambodia and Thailand are sheltering successful pagodas, schools and different harmless havens aft fleeing a renewed eruption of warring successful a century-old borderline dispute.

At slightest 13 people, including Thai soldiers and Cambodian civilians, person been killed successful the latest spate of fighting, present successful its 3rd time connected Wednesday, officials said, portion much than 500,000 person fled borderline regions wherever jets, tanks and drones are waging battle.

The Southeast Asian neighbours quality the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometre (500-mile) frontier, wherever competing claims to historical temples person spilled implicit into equipped conflict.

This week’s clashes are the deadliest since 5 days of warring successful July, which killed dozens and displaced astir 300,000 radical earlier a shaky truce was agreed.

Both sides blasted each different for instigating the renewed conflict, which connected Tuesday expanded to 5 provinces successful some Thailand and Cambodia.

On Wednesday, Cambodia withdrew from the Southeast Asian Games, hosted by Thailand, with its Olympic committee “citing superior concerns and requests from the families of our athletes for their relatives to instrumentality location immediately”.