Thailand says over 100,000 civilians flee clashes with Cambodia

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Srin: More than 100,000 people have fled the bloody border between Thailand and Cambodia in a decade, Bangkok said on Friday that the number of casualties and international powers called for stopping in hostility.

A long -standing border dispute spread in fierce fighting with jets, artillery, tanks and ground troops on Thursday, and the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on the crisis on Friday.

More than one million people from four border provinces have moved to about 300 300 temporary shelters, while the Ministry of Health said the number of casualties has increased to 15 – 14 civilians and a soldier – with 46 injured, including 15 troops, the Thai Ministry said.

Cambodian authorities have not released any accident data from them.

In the Cambodia town of Samarong, 20 km (12 miles) from the border, AFP journalists heard the fire of a remote artillery on Friday morning.

When the guns started, some families tied their children and luggage in cars and ran.

“I live very close to the border,” told AFP, 41 -year -old Pro Bock, because he was scared because he started shooting again around 6am. “

He was taking his wife and children to the temple of Buddhism to seek shelter.

“I don’t know when we can come back,” he said.

AFP journalists also saw that the soldiers flee to the main rocket launchers and worked at the border at a speedy.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who is currently chaired by regional block ASEAN in the country, said he held talks with the two countries on Thursday and demanded ceasefire and dialogue,

“I welcome the positive gestures and consent shown by both Bangkok and Nam Pina, so that they can move forward,” he said in a Facebook post on Thursday.

The Thai army said, but despite the hope of Anwar, the fighting resumed in three areas around 3pm on Friday (2100 GMT Thursday).

The Cambodian forces bombed with heavy weapons, field artillery, and BM11 rocket systems, the army said.

Call to be calm

Compared to their shared 800 km (500 miles) Frontier, a long-running dispute between the two popular places-neighborhoods for millions of foreign tourists has increased a dramatic increase.

In many areas, dozens of kilometers have been fought and fighting has begun between 2008 and 2011, killing at least 28 people and displaced tens of thousands.

A UN court’s decision settled the matter for more than a decade in 2013, but the current crisis spread in May when a Cambodian soldier was killed in a new confrontation.

According to the Thai army, the fighting was focused on Thursday at six places, including about two ancient temples.

Tanks were backed by ground troops, while Cambodia fired rockets and shells in Thailand, and Thai set the F -16 jets to target cross -border military targets.

Both sides first accused the firing, while Thailand accused Cambodia of targeting a civil infrastructure, including the shell -affected hospital and a petrol station, which was hit by at least one rocket.

Thursday clashes came after the Cambodian ambassador and five Thai military patrol members were injured in a landmine a few hours after returning to their envoy.

Cambodia down the “lower level” relationship on Thursday, expelling everyone except one of his diplomats and expelled his Thai equation from Naeena.

Diplomatic sources told AFP that the UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss deadly clashes on Friday, at the request of Cambodian Prime Minister Han Moniet.

The United States called for the “immediate” end of the conflict, while France, the former colonial ruler of Cambodia, made a similar call.

The European Union and China – a close ally of Fonam Pena – said they have “deep concern” about the clashes, and demands talks.