Thai-Cambodia clashes continue for 6th day as civilian death raises toll to 14

Thai soldiers on armored personnel carriers take a position at the border during fighting between Thailand and Cambodia in Surin province, northeastern Thailand Tuesday, April 26, 2011. The worst fighting in years between Thailand and Cambodia spread Tuesday to a third stone-walled temple, as the neighbors exchanged artillery fire in border clashes that have killed 13 soldiers and displaced 50,000 villagers. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

April 27, 2011
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SURIN, Thailand — Officials say Thailand and Cambodia have traded fire for a sixth day as an increasingly bloody border dispute drags on.

Thai army spokesman Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd says one Thai civilian was killed Tuesday by Cambodian rocket fire, bringing the total dead in the wave of clashes that began Friday to 14.

Military officials from both nations say Wednesday's fighting centered around two crumbling stone temples from the Khmer Empire at Ta Moan and Ta Krabey which have been caught in crossfire since the weekend.