Thailand authorities have evacuated more than 100,000 people in the face of clashes with Cambodia They exploded on the eve at the border and continue this Friday, with a balance of victims that amounts to 14 dead and several dozens of injured.
A total of 100,672 displaced in the border provinces of Surin, Sisket, Buriram and Ubon Ratchathani have been relocated to 295 temporary sheltersexplained the Thai Ministry, before “the disaster situation derived from the disturbances caused by illegal armed actions by Cambodia.”
After weeks of tensions, Bangkok and Nom Pen’s armed forces began hostilities on Thursday of those who accuse each other of having led and that had attacks in at least six different points of the aforementioned provinces.
The Thailand Ministry of Health today raised the Balance of victims to 14 dead -Ante them, a military- and dozens injured.
Several schools remain closed in risk areas, according to the Thai executive, who also reported that some health centers in the area function as campaign hospitals.
Bangkok launched aerial offensives with f-16 fighters against two military objectives on Nom Pen the eve, while Cambodia has not recognized concrete attacks at the moment, but admitted having used its “Sovereign and territorial law to defend” the “brutal military aggression“From Thailand.
The contest between the two neighboring countries constitutes a resurgence of the historic territorial dispute that they drag, intensified last May after a Cambodian soldier died in an exchange of shooting between both armies.
Thailand has retired his ambassador to Cambodia and expelled the Cambodian ambassador to Bangkok, while NOM PEN has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council, due to the clashes.
