LONDON — Not less than seven civilians have been killed and roughly 20 others have been injured in Cambodia amid renewed border clashes with neighboring Thailand, in keeping with the Cambodian Ministry of Nationwide Protection.
This week’s Thai assaults, which stem from a long-running border dispute between the 2 Southeast Asian nations, have additionally compelled greater than 20,000 from their properties in a number of communities, the Cambodian ministry stated, together with destroying infrastructure, damaging temples disrupting public providers.
Evacuated Thai residents collect at a short lived shelter following clashes alongside the Thailand-Cambodia border in Buriram province on Dec. 8, 2025.
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“Along with these main impacts, additional tragedies and damages proceed to unfold, because the Thai navy has launched numerous varieties of long-range munitions into Cambodian civilian settlements positioned as much as 30 kilometers from the border,” the ministry stated in a press release on Tuesday.
In the meantime, a minimum of one Thai soldier has been killed and 29 others have been injured within the reignited fight round contested frontier territory, in keeping with the Royal Thai Military.
The military stated in a press release that its troops have been on Tuesday enduring “steady assaults in opposition to our positions” by Cambodian forces. Opposing troops had been “firing BM-21 multiple-launch rockets and using bomb-dropping drones and kamikaze drones focusing on our bases and defensive positions throughout a number of battlefronts” close to the border, the military stated.
Greater than 125,000 folks have been utilizing the lots of of short-term shelters arrange on the Thai facet of the border, the military stated.
A resident exhibits the damages to a home suspected to have been brought on by Cambodian artillery shells throughout clashes alongside the Thai-Cambodia border in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo Province on Dec. 9, 2025.
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Since Monday, the clashes have unfold to a number of provinces alongside the Cambodia-Thailand border. Each side accuse one another for beginning the preventing.
The most recent clashes come simply months after each side agreed to a ceasefire. The 2 Southeast Asian nations have lengthy disputed territorial sovereignty alongside their land border of greater than 500 miles, in keeping with The Related Press.
