Border clashes
\nBANGKOK
\nMore than 500,000 people have fled their homes to safety in Thailand and Cambodia since the start of a reignited border conflict, both governments said on Wednesday, surpassing the total number evacuated during similar clashes earlier this year.
\n\u201cCivilians have had to evacuate in large numbers due to what we assessed as an imminent threat to their safety. More than 400,000 people have been moved to safe shelters,\u201d across seven provinces, Thai defence ministry spokesperson Surasant Kongsiri told reporters at a news conference.
\nIn Cambodia, \u201c101,229 people have been evacuated to safe shelters and relatives\u2019 homes in five provinces,\u201d as of Tuesday evening, defence ministry spokeswoman Maly Socheata told reporters. The Southeast Asian neighbours dispute the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometre (500-mile) frontier, where competing claims to historic temples have spilt over into armed conflict.
\nThis week\u2019s clashes are the deadliest since five days of fighting in July that killed dozens and displaced around 300,000 on both sides of the border before a shaky truce was agreed, following intervention by US President Donald Trump who co-signed a truce between a Cambodia and Thailand in October during a visit to Asia.
\nBoth sides blame each other for instigating the renewed fighting, which on Tuesday expanded to five provinces of both Thailand and Cambodia, according to an media tally of official accounts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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