Lukkana Namprakhon and her six-year-old daughter, Sunisa Chanprakhon, are among the tens of thousands of Thais who have evacuated from the border areas.
They spent 30 minutes in a bunker before fleeing to a local shelter and then the local university in Surin province.
“We didn’t get to run,” Sunisa told Reuters in front of a camping tent her mother had set up in the university sports hall now suddenly housing evacuees. “Instead, we ran into the bunker.”
Decades-old disagreements between Thailand and Cambodia over jurisdiction of certain points along their 817km (508-mile) land border have led to skirmishes over several years, including a weeklong exchange of artillery fire in 2011.
This time, the attacks appear to be worse, Lukkana said. “All you could hear was the sound of explosions,” she told the news agency.
Jeenjana Phapan, a 48-year-old farmer, told the news agency she fled her village with her three-year-old son after shells landed in the rice field behind their house while her husband stayed behind to care for their cows and guard their home.
Villagers have dug bunkers in case of renewed shelling.
“I hope my husband can hide if more shells come,” she said.
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