Bangkok, July 24 -- A Thai F-16 fighter jet bombed targets in Cambodia as weeks of tension over a border dispute escalated into clashes that have killed at least two civilians, sources said today.
Thailand deployed F-16 fighter jets along the disputed border, and one of the aircraft fired into the Cambodian territory destroying a military target, the Thai army said.
Both countries accuse each other of escalating the tensions. Cambodia has been accused of firing rockets into a Thai village and attacking a hospital, while Thailand has carried out air strikes on Cambodian military targets, as per local media reports.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has requested the UN Security Council to convene an "urgent meeting" over clashes between ...