Cambodia has evacuated hundreds of its citizens from a village on the disputed border it shares with Thailand as tensions between the neighbours are flaring , threatening a ceasefire agreed in July.

About 250 families from Prey Chan in Cambodia’s northwestern province of Banteay Meanchey were taken on Thursday to a Buddhist temple 29km (18 miles) from the border, according to provincial Vice Governor Ly Sovannarith.

The evacuation took place a day after a man identified as Dy Nai was said to have been killed in a shootout between Cambodian and Thai soldiers around the same frontier village.

Three others were injured in the incident, according to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.

Both sides blamed the other for what happened on Wednesday, claiming they were not the first to open fir

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