BANGKOK: Thailand's army said Cambodian forces violated a 10-day-old truce on Tuesday (Jan 6), bombarding a border province with mortars that wounded one soldier.
"Cambodia has violated the ceasefire" on Tuesday morning, the Thai army said in a statement, accusing Cambodian forces of firing mortar rounds into Thailand's Ubon Ratchathani province.
Second Army Area Commander Lt Gen Weerayuth Raksilp (pic) said that an investigation is under way after a mortar round was fired into Hill 469 near Chong Bok in Nam Yuen district at 7.25am.
The incident left one soldier injured, with shrapnel woun
One soldier was wounded by shrapnel and being evacuated for medical treatment, it added.
The decades-old dispute between the South-East Asian neighbours erupted into military clashes several times last year, with fighting in December killing dozens of people and displacing around one million on both sides.
The two countries agreed a truce on Dec 27, ending three weeks of clashes.
Cambodia has not immediately commented on the alleged strike. - AFP/The Nation/ANN
