By Thet Sambath
The Phnom Penh Post
A 22-year-old Cambodian man accused of illegal logging in Thailand’s Sisaket province was shot by Thai soldiers Monday, continuing a recent string of attacks on Cambodian loggers along the border, officials said.
Pouth Nin, from Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district, sustained one gunshot wound to his right leg and is recovering in a Sisaket hospital, said Touch Ra, deputy chief of the Thailand-Cambodia Relations Office at the Chom border gate.
Touch Ra said the Thai soldiers involved in the incident claimed that the loggers had been the first to open fire.
“I do not believe this information,” he said. “They probably just want to put the blame on the victim.”
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