{"id":6123,"date":"2026-02-27T03:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:52:04","slug":"thai-soldier-loses-leg-in-landmine-blast-on-cambodia-thailand-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6123","title":{"rendered":"Thai soldier loses leg in landmine blast on Cambodia: Thailand military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BANGKOK: A Thai soldier lost his leg on Friday (Feb 27) in a landmine blast on the country&#8217;s contested frontier with Cambodia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/cambodia-prime-minister-hun-manet-thailand-occupy-territory-ceasefire-5937531\">where a shaky truce is holding<\/a> after months of cross-border clashes, Thailand&#8217;s military said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One soldier has been critically wounded and lost his right leg after stepping on a landmine,&#8221; the Thai army said in a statement, adding the incident took place around dawn in the border province of Surin.<\/p>\n<p>However the Thai military said a &#8220;preliminary examination&#8221; of Friday&#8217;s blast &#8220;indicates that the landmine was buried deep in clay and covered with leaves, suggesting it was not newly laid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand and Cambodia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/thailand-cambodia-allegations-open-fire-ceasefire-5949406\">have repeatedly accused each other of violating successive truces<\/a> with cross-border gun and mortar fire, while Bangkok has alleged Phnomh Penh&#8217;s soldiers have laid fresh landmines on contested soil.<\/p>\n<p>Since last summer dozens have been killed in waves of conflict along the nations&#8217; jungle-bound border, disputed for more than a century since its demarcation in the French colonial era.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million civilians were displaced along the 800km frontier at the height of the fighting in July and December, before a tentative ceasefire took effect.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia&#8217;s border is still littered with unexploded ordinance dating back to separate conflicts decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Under the December truce, Cambodia and Thailand pledged to cease fire, freeze troop movements and cooperate on demining efforts along the frontier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/thai-soldier-loses-leg-in-landmine-blast-cambodia-thailand-military-5957376\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK: A Thai soldier lost his leg on Friday (Feb 27) in a landmine blast on the country&#8217;s contested frontier with Cambodia, where a shaky truce&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}