PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Cambodia on Friday held a religious ceremony to honor soldiers killed in recent border clashes with Thai forces and to pray for peace.

They marched from the country’s main religious school near the Royal Palace in the capital, Phnom Penh, to a nearby temple, where they were joined by nuns and laymen and women.

The monks chanted and prayed to honor the souls of the dead soldiers.

A board inside the temple displayed the photographs of more than 40 men in uniform. It wasn’t clear whether these images were of soldiers killed, or included those who were wounded and captured.

Cambodia has admitted only to the deaths of six of its troops in the fighting, which began late last month and continued for five days.

Dozens of people on both

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