Thai army-trained rangers and forestry officials exchanged gunfire with a group of Cambodian lumberjacks at a border area of northeastern Thailand, a government official said.
Five Cambodians, two of whom were suspected as army soldiers, had allegedly trespassed into Thai territory and poached for timber at the Huay Sala wildlife sanctuary in Phu Sing district of Sisaket province, according to Sathit Phanthumat, head of the sanctuary.
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