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Thailand's authorities said a rocket onslaught from Cambodia connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) killed a 63-year-old villager, its archetypal civilian decease reported arsenic a nonstop effect of combat implicit the past week on the borderline of the 2 Southeast Asian Nations.
Both countries confirmed that large-scale fighting, which was acceptable disconnected by a skirmish connected Sunday (December 7) that wounded 2 Thai soldiers, continued. The 2 sides are battling implicit longstanding competing claims to patches of frontier land, immoderate of which incorporate centuries-old temple ruins.
More than 2 twelve radical connected some sides of the borderline person officially been reported killed successful the past week's fighting, portion much than fractional a cardinal person been displaced.
Reporters from The Associated Press arrived astatine the country of Sunday's (December 14) rocket interaction successful Sisaket province's Kantharalak District astir 10 minutes aft it hit. They witnessed the assemblage of a antheral wholly wrapped successful bandages being enactment connected a stretcher that was taken to an ambulance.
A location a mates of 100 metres distant was successful flames, with colony volunteers attempting to enactment retired the occurrence with buckets of water. A portion of shrapnel believed to beryllium from the aforesaid rocket was embedded adjacent successful the road.
The victim, identified arsenic Don Patchapan, was killed successful the bosom of a residential country adjacent a school, according to a Thai Army statement. Thai Government Spokesperson Siripong Angkasakulkiat condemned Cambodia for deliberately firing into civilian areas, saying that specified an enactment was “cruel and inhumane”.
Cambodia has deployed truck-mounted BM-21 rocket launchers with a scope of 30-40 km. Each tin occurrence up to 40 rockets astatine a time, but cannot beryllium precisely targeted. They person landed mostly successful areas from which astir radical person already been evacuated.
Thai authorities accidental Cambodia has launched thousands of the rockets connected virtually a regular basis.
Thailand, meanwhile, has been carrying retired airstrikes with its combatant planes, with Cambodia saying the bombing continued connected Sunday (December, 14). Both sides person employed drones for surveillance and delivering bombs.
The Thai subject has acknowledged that 15 of its troops person died during the fighting, and estimated that determination person been astatine slightest 221 fatalities among Cambodian soldiers.
Cambodia denounced the Thai number of its dormant arsenic disinformation but has not yet acknowledged immoderate subject casualties. It has said astatine slightest 11 civilians person been killed and much than six twelve wounded.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet delivered a morale-boosting connection to his countrymen connected Sunday (December 14), penning connected societal media that helium is arrogant to spot this Nation's spot "in this concern wherever our state is facing difficulties owed to aggression from neighbouring countries".
The caller warring derailed a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that ended 5 days of earlier combat successful July. It had been brokered by Malaysia and pushed done by unit from Mr. Trump, who threatened to withhold commercialized privileges unless Thailand and Cambodia agreed.
It was formalised successful much item successful October astatine a determination gathering successful Malaysia that Mr. Trump attended.
Mr. Trump announced this past Friday (December 12) that the 2 countries had agreed astatine his urging to renew the ceasefire, but Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul denied making immoderate commitment, and Cambodia announced it was continuing to combat successful what it said is self-defense.
A Thai Navy warship successful the Gulf of Thailand joined the warring connected Saturday (December 13) morning, trading occurrence with guns based successful Cambodia's Southwestern Province of Koh Kong. Each broadside blamed the different for initiating the speech connected a caller front.
