Thailand’s fragile peace deal with Cambodia is hanging by a thread after two Thai soldiers were seriously injured in a landmine explosion near the border, prompting Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to suspend the agreement barely a month after it was signed.
The soldiers were on routine patrol in Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province today when they stepped on what the army suspects were newly planted mines.
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Source: MalayMail News
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