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Thai­land and Cam­bo­dia trad­ed ac­cu­sa­tions Sat­ur­day of fresh at­tacks as dead­ly bor­der clash­es en­tered a third day, leav­ing at least 33 peo­ple dead and more than 168,000 dis­placed, as in­ter­na­tion­al pres­sure mount­ed on both sides to reach a cease­fire.

Ar­tillery fire and gun­shots were re­port­ed near sev­er­al bor­der vil­lages, ex­pand­ing the area of the fight­ing that flared again Thurs­day af­ter a land mine ex­plo­sion along the bor­der wound­ed five Thai sol­diers. Cam­bo­di­an and Thai of­fi­cials claimed to have act­ed in re­tal­i­a­tion.

Both coun­tries re­called their am­bas­sadors and Thai­land closed its north­east­ern bor­der cross­ings with Cam­bo­dia.