Thailand launches airstrikes as border clashes reignite
What's happening?
- Fighting has broken out along disputed border
- Thailand says air strikes targeted Cambodian military facilities
- Thai army says one of its soldiers was killed
- Cambodia says four civilians killed and nine wounded
- Each side accuses the other of violating ceasefire
- US President Donald Trump brokered July truce
- Over 385,000 civilians being evacuated in Thailand
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Landmines are a recurring cause of Thai-Cambodian tensions
FILE PHOTO: A member of the Thailand Mine Action Centre demonstrates a PMN-2 mine in Surin province, Thailand, August 20, 2025. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
As we reported earlier, the latest tensions have simmered since a Thai soldier was wounded by a landmine on November 10.
A landmine incident was also the catalyst for five days of hostilities in July.
Thailand accuses Cambodia of laying Soviet-origin PMN-2 mines along parts of their disputed frontier, leading to several Thai soldiers being maimed.
Cambodia denies this, saying the soldiers stepped on non-PMN-2 ordnance planted during a decades-long civil war.
In the aftermath of the July clashes, the Thai military provided Reuters with access to shrapnel and landmines it said it recovered from the border area.
Landmine experts said the photographed PMN-2s were freshly laid, contradicting Cambodia.
PMN-2s are an anti-personnel mine that litters parts of Cambodia and which both countries have pledged by treaty not to use.
Read more about the landmines issue here.
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