BANGKOK, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Cambodian and Thai forces fought along the border Tuesday in an ongoing dispute about an ancient Hindu temple, a Thai military official said.
Thai military spokesman Sansern Kaewkumnerd said the fighting broke out when the Cambodian military tossed hand grenades and the Thai army responded with gunfire, CNN reported.
Officials said five Thai soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in the skirmish, the Bangkok Post reported.
On Monday, the U.N. Security Council urged the two nations to declare a truce and begin talks to end their dispute over Preah Vihear temple.
"The members of the Security Council called on the two sides to display maximum restraint and avoid any action that may aggravate the situation," Ambassador Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti of Brazil said in a statement.
The dispute concerns the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple on a cliff in Cambodian territory but is most easily accessible from Thailand. In 1962, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, determined the site was in Cambodia, CNN said. Thailand said the 1.8-square-mile area around the temple never was defined properly, blaming a faulty map drawn during the French occupation of Cambodia early in the 20th century.
