FILE PHOTO: Thai and Cambodian troops interact near the border recently. - Supplied via PPP/ANN
PHNOM PENH: Thailand accused Cambodia of injuring its soldiers with land mines planted on the Thai side of their shared border, prompting Phnom Penh to reject the claim and suggest the incident may have been aimed at triggering a larger confrontation.
Three Thai soldiers were injured when they stepped on a land mine during a routine patrol along an established route on July 16, Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement late Sunday (July 20). The mines were not of a type used by Thailand and were recently laid in a "blatant violation of international law,” it said.
