The soldiers were doing a security sweep to lay barbed wire in the Don Ao-Krissana border area in Si Sa Ket province when one of them triggered the landmine. The incident comes two days after both countries met in Kuala Lumpur for talks hailed as “constructive and positive”.

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to establish interim observer teams to monitor a fragile ceasefire that ended five days of deadly border clashes

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Cambodia and Thailand's top defence officials agreed on Thursday to allow observers from the ASEAN regional bloc to inspect disputed border areas and help ensure hostilities do not resume following a violent five-day conflict that ended in a ceasefire late in July.