From sports day to shelter: Thai family flees shelling from Cambodia

People rest inside a shelter, after Thailand and Cambodia exchanged heavy artillery on Friday as their worst fighting in more than a decade stretched for a second day, in Surin, Thailand, July 25, 2025. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

SURIN, Thailand (Reuters) -Six-year-old Sunisa Chanprakhon was looking forward to running in her school sports day in their Thai border village on Thursday when explosions shattered the morning calm.

"We didn't get to run," she said in front of a camping tent her mother had set up in a university sports hall now suddenly housing evacuees. "Instead we ran into the bunker."