Saturday, 4 April 2009

Cambodia, Thai border clash leaves soldiers dead

Thai soldiers stand guard near the border with Cambodia. Thai and Cambodian troops fought heavy gun-battles on their disputed border, leaving at least two soldiers dead in the biggest flare-up for months in a bitter feud over an ancient temple.(AFP/AFP)

Thai soldiers stand guard in the disputed border area with Cambodia of Preah Vihear temple, in Si Sa Ket province April 3, 2009. One Thai soldier was killed and seven others wounded on Friday in fighting with Cambodian troops near the disputed Hindu temple on their border, a Thai general said. REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND CONFLICT POLITICS MILITARY) THAILAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN THAILAND

Thai soldiers walk along a road in the disputed border area with Cambodia of Preah Vihear temple, in Si Sa Ket province April 3, 2009. One Thai soldier was killed and seven others wounded on Friday in fighting with Cambodian troops near the disputed Hindu temple on their border, a Thai general said. REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND POLITICS MILITARY CONFLICT) THAILAND OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN THAILAND

Cambodian soldiers stand guard near the Preah Vihear temple near the border with Thailand in October 2008. Cambodian and Thai troops fought heavy gunbattles along their disputed border, leaving three soldiers dead in a major flare-up of a long-running feud over an ancient temple.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)

A Cambodian soldier sits at Phnom Trop near Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple in a world heritage site at the Cambodian-Thai border, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Nov. 11, 2008. Cambodian troops said Friday a brief gunfight broke out with Thai soldiers at their tense border near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, the site of increasingly regular conflicts between the neighbors.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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