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| Subject: YaY! Four Thai troops killed in clash Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:14 pm | |
| FOUR Thai soldiers were killed and another 10 wounded in a border clash with Cambodian forces on Friday, army officials said, updating an earlier toll.
One of the soldiers died at the site of the clash near a disputed 900-year-old temple and the other died later in hospital, said regional Thai army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Wichit Makarun.
Government spokesman and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith confirmed the casualties on the Thai side, but he didn't provide the casualty numbers on the Cambodian side, Xinhua news agency reported.
Earlier on Friday, he told reporters that two Cambodian soldiers were killed in the battle, but later he denied it.
Phay Siphan, spokesman of the Council of Ministers, told reporters that both sides traded fire with machine guns, mortars and rockets in the fighting.
Vy Manin, a villager living near the Preah Vihear temple, told Xinhua by phone that the battle started around 2 pm local time (3pm Singapore time) and lasted for at least 30 minutes.
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