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Thailand will halt all actions on truce deal with Cambodia after a land mine injures troops

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand will halt all actions it agreed to take under the terms of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal with Cambodia, the country’s prime minister said Monday, just hours after a land mine explosion in the volatile border area injured two Thai soldiers.

Thailand and Cambodia signed a truce agreement at a summit in Malaysia last month, after territorial disputes between the two Southeast Asian neighbors led to a five-day deadly combat in late July that killed dozens.

Tensions have simmered and there have been similar land mine explosions — both before and after the clashes, including one that injured three Thai soldiers patrolling the border zone in August.