BANGKOK, Feb 6 -- Students of a border school which was hit by artillery shells fired by Cambodian troops during fierce fighting with Thai troops will have to use the school’s auditorium and the field as temporary classrooms, said Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat on Sunday.
The roof and classrooms of the two-storey school building, situated near the Thai-Cambodian disputed border close to the ancient Preah Vihear temple, was damaged during the two-day clashes which began Friday.
Mr Chinnaworn said damages to the school were estimated at Bt3 million.
He said students there will have to temporarily use the school’s auditorium while tents will be erected on the field so that teaching could resume.
For safety precautions, education officials in Si Sa Ket border province will have full authority to close schools in case fighting between both sides resumed, he said.
Teachers will have to closely coordinate with the Second Region Army Command, which is responsible for security in northeastern Thailand, as well with students’ parents in allowing the students to hide in safe areas in case fighting renewed, Mr Chinnaworn said.
By early Sunday, no report of fresh fighting had erupted after senior Thai and Cambodian soldiers on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire. Both sides also agreed that neither side would reinforce their troops at the border, prevent an accident from reoccurring in the future and promised to coordinate more closely with an aim to preventing clashes at the ill-defined border from erupting again. (MCOT online news)
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