EOD officials conducted a survey of damage from "13 bomb craters" found within a community area following the Trat border clash. They found one crater in the middle of a road that remains unexploded and cannot be defused.
At 11:00 on 13 Dec 2025 GMT+7, Trat provincial administrative officers coordinated with Ban Tha Luean Police Station and the EOD team to inspect bomb craters originating from Cambodia inside a durian orchard in the area.
Initially, 13 bomb craters were identified: 11 in the orchard, all fully exploded, and 2 on the road. Among these, one crater on the road could not yet be safely defused.
Officials inspected the craters and assessed surrounding damage, such as to trees, most of which were burnt by blast force. They also collected metallic bomb fragments for analysis to determine the type of explosives used by Cambodia.
The crater on the road that remains unexploded is estimated to be about 3 meters deep, making defusing impossible without excavating the road surface. Officials placed traffic cones to block the crater's opening to prevent danger to vehicles still needing to use this main road leading to Khlong Yai District.
Phinyo Dee-lai, the subdistrict head of Chamrak, said he led officials to inspect 13 clearly located craters. Twelve had exploded, and one on the road remained unexploded. Several other sites remain inaccessible, mostly in dense forest or covered by leaves, pending a more stable security situation for inspection.
The bomb sites were all in civilian areas, including homes and villagers' orchards. He expressed a wish that Cambodian soldiers not retaliate against Thai forces in villages, noting that they had nearly 100% completed plans to evacuate villagers to avoid injuries or deaths. Villagers were disheartened upon learning their orchards were damaged. This was considered the heaviest clash in Trat to date.
The subdistrict head also urged Cambodian authorities to acknowledge the facts, responding to their claims that the bombs found in Thai orchards and roads were fake news. He confirmed that Cambodia firing bombs into Thai roads and orchards was true.
In the Ban Nong Ree area of Chamrak Subdistrict, Thai artillery fired three consecutive rounds at 11:45, following earlier attacks on the Chai Chum Neua bridge and Thomoda casino in Cambodia’s Poipet Province that morning.
