Rice farmer Samrouy Duangsawai was forced to evacuate to Phanom Dong Rak district after artillery shells hit the neighbouring village. - ST/ANN
SURIN, Thailand: Rice farmer Samrouy Duangsawai was up early fixing herself a morning meal of sticky rice when a series of loud blasts almost shook her off her feet.
Cambodian heavy artillery shells launched from across the nearby border had struck the next village just a few hundred metres away, the rising smoke visible in the air. The 67-year-old’s thoughts quickly turned to the two young granddaughters she was helping to raise while their migrant worker parents were pulling shifts at a factory out of town.
