Cambodia conducted attacks after ceasefire deadline: Thai army

BANGKOK: Cambodia has conducted attacks at multiple locations in violation of a ceasefire deal, a Thai army spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after the two neighbours said they would halt fighting starting at midnight.

Thai troops have retaliated proportionately in self defence, Major General Winthai Suvaree said in a statement.

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The leaders of Thailand and Cambodia met in Malaysia on Monday and agreed to halt their deadliest conflict in more than a decade following five days of intense fighting that displaced over 300,000 people.

The ceasefire was to take effect on Monday midnight.

The Southeast Asian neighbours accuse each other of starting the fighting last week, before escalating it with heavy artillery bombardment and Thai air strikes along their 817-km land border. The tensions intensified with the killing of a Cambodian soldier during a brief skirmish late in May.

Both sides reinforced border troops amid a full-blown diplomatic crisis that brought Thailand’s coalition government to the brink of collapse.