Thailand’s foreign minister arrived for a visit to the Myanmar border on Friday, the ministry said, following days of clashes that have dislodged junta troops from their positions in a vital trade hub in the neighbouring country.
Fighting between Myanmar’s military and ethnic minority armed groups has rocked the border town of Myawaddy this week, sending people rushing into Thailand, from where the boom of artillery shells and gunfire could be heard.
The conflict in Myanmar sparked by the military’s 2021 coup regularly sends people fleeing across the two countries' shared 2,400-kilometre (1,490-mile) border.
Foreign minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara will visit two “Friendship bridges” that link the Thai town of Mae Sot with Myawaddy, Thailand’s foreign affairs ministry said.
The Karen National Union (KNU) told AFP on Thursday that displaced junta troops were sheltering near the terminus of one of the bridges. . .
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