(24 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Oddar Meanchay province, Cambodia – 24 July 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of displaced Cambodian villagers driving at night on homemade tractors
2. Various of an encampment of displaced villagers
3. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Tep Savouen, Displaced villager:
“It was about 8 o’clock this morning. Suddenly, I heard a loud noise. My son told me it might be thunder and I thought, “is it thunder or is it loud, more like a gun?” At that time I was very scared.”
4. Various of encampment
STORYLINE:
Mounted on slow-moving, homemade tractors laden with possessions, a stream of Cambodian villagers and their families fled through the darkness on Thursday night, seeking safety after long-simmering tensions erupted in a day of deadly fighting between Cambodian and Thai forces.
Clashes took place in at least six disputed areas along the border, according to the Thai Defense Ministry.
The two sides traded artillery, gun and rocketfire and Thai fighter planes carried out airstrikes.
At least 14 Thais have been killed, most of them civilians, according to the Thai health ministry.
There’s no information yet about casualties on the Cambodian side.
The displaced villagers set up an encampment about 30km from the border, near the town of Samrong in Oddar Meanchey province.
They rigged up tents and deployed hammocks and mosquito nets.
Tep Savouen, a 45 year old mother of four children, recounted the events of the morning that forced her to flee.
“It was about 8 o’clock this morning. Suddenly, I heard a loud noise. My son told me it might be thunder and I thought, “is it thunder or is it loud, more like a gun?” At that time I was very scared,” she said.
It’s not clear how long they will have to remain, with little sign yet of either side backing down.
The Southeast Asian neighbors have longstanding border disputes that periodically flare along their 800-kilometer (500-mile) frontier and usually result in brief confrontations that sometimes involves exchanges of gunfire.
But relations have deteriorated sharply since a confrontation in May that killed a Cambodian soldier, and Thursday’s clashes were far bigger in scale and intensity than usual.
AP Video by Soppheng Cheang
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