A Cambodian antheral who fled his location adjacent the Cambodia-Thailand borderline walks astatine a pagoda compound successful Banteay Meanchey province, Cambodia, connected July 30, 2025.
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Three Thai soldiers were injured by a landmine adjacent the Cambodian borderline connected Saturday, the Thai service said, days aft the Southeast Asian neighbours agreed to a detailed ceasefire halting past month's deadly five-day conflict.
One worker mislaid a ft and 2 were injured aft 1 of them stepped connected a landmine portion patrolling an country betwixt Thailand's Sisaket and Cambodia's Preah Vihear provinces, the service said successful a statement.
The soldiers were being treated astatine a hospital, it said.
Thailand said the incidental occurred in an country of its territory precocious cleared of landmines. The foreign ministry said Bangkok would lodge a ailment against Cambodia for violating a treaty, to which some are signatories, that bans the usage of landmines and for infringing Thai sovereignty.
Cambodia rejected Thailand's accusation, saying that it had not freshly planted landmines.
The state is a "proud authorities party" to the Ottawa Convention against landmines and has cleared much than 1 cardinal mines near from decades of war, the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority said successful a connection precocious connected Saturday, adding that Thailand's accusations risked undermining the tone of the ceasefire.
Bangkok and Phnom Penh person quarrelled for decades implicit undemarcated parts of their 817-km (508-mile) onshore border, which was archetypal mapped by France successful 1907 erstwhile Cambodia was its colony.
Saturday's incidental is the 3rd clip successful a fewer weeks that Thai soldiers person been injured by mines portion patrolling on the border. Two previous incidents led to the downgrading of diplomatic relations and triggered the clashes.
The July 24-28 clashes, the worst warring betwixt the countries successful much than a decade, progressive exchanges of artillery occurrence and pitchy combatant sorties that killed astatine slightest 43 and near implicit 300,000 radical displaced connected some sides.
The fragile ceasefire has been holding since Thailand and Cambodia agreed connected Thursday to let observers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations inspect disputed borderline areas to guarantee hostilities bash not resume.
Bangkok accused Cambodia of planting landmines connected the Thai broadside of the disputed borderline that injured soldiers connected July 16 and July 23. Phnom Penh denied it had placed immoderate caller mines, saying the soldiers had veered disconnected agreed routes and triggered aged landmines near from its decades of war.
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