Cambodia warns displaced people, tourist hotspots at risk from Thai bombs

Thailand for the archetypal clip targets Siem Reap province, location to Cambodia’s tourer hub Angkor Wat, Phnom Penh says.

Thai bombing raids person struck adjacent shelters for displaced radical and Cambodia’s cardinal tourer hub, Phnom Penh warns.

Cambodia said connected Monday arsenic renewed fighting betwixt the neighbours enters its 2nd week that Thai aerial attacks are reaching deeper into its territory.

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Thai F-16 combatant jets dropped 2 bombs adjacent camps for displaced radical successful the Chong Kal territory of the northwestern borderline state of Oddar Meanchey and the Srei Snam territory successful Siem Reap state conscionable southbound of Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia’s Ministries of National Defence and Information said.

Srei Snam, wherever Cambodian officials said a span was targeted, is astir an 80km (50-mile) thrust from Angkor Wat, a sprawling temple that is Cambodia’s nationalist awesome and main tourer draw.

Minister for Information Neth Pheaktra told the AFP quality bureau that it was the archetypal clip during the renewed warring that Thailand’s subject had struck wrong Siem Reap province.

Fighting betwixt the neighbours, fuelled by longstanding rival claims to territory on their shared border, was reignited by a skirmish connected December 7.

The incidental wounded 2 Thai soldiers and derailed a ceasefire pushed by United States President Donald Trump that ended 5 days of combat successful July.

More than 2 twelve radical on the borderline person been killed successful the latest outbreak of warring and much than fractional a cardinal displaced, officials said.

Military officials connected some sides said clashes and strikes on the borderline were ongoing connected Monday.

Mounting losses

Thailand has made nary remark connected the latest Cambodian statements, but astatine a quality league connected Monday, Thai officials delivered an estimation of the harm inflicted by their subject since the warring resumed.

They said the Cambodian losses included 12 tanks, 10 armoured vehicles, 4 anti-aircraft artillery systems, 7 artillery pieces oregon mortars, 5 antidrone systems and 5 connection hubs.

Thailand said Cambodia, which is mostly outgunned by its rival, has fired thousands of rockets from truck-mounted launchers astatine its territory.

Bangkok besides said it has killed hundreds of Cambodian soldiers successful the fighting.

Phnom Penh has dismissed specified figures arsenic propaganda portion declining to merchandise its ain figures regarding subject deaths, The Associated Press quality bureau reported.

Cambodia said 15 of its civilians person been killed and 73 wounded. Thailand said 16 of its soldiers and a civilian person been killed.

Thai officials besides said they were trying to chopped disconnected the proviso of substance and weapons to Cambodia but denied reports that a full-scale naval blockade would beryllium mounted, AP reported.