EOD officers are urgently searching for bombs and rockets fired by Cambodian soldiers into the border area between Thailand and Cambodia in Buriram province. They have found 158 rockets and are preparing to destroy 5 unexploded ones.
On 8 Jan 2026, reporters reported that the EOD unit of Buriram Provincial Police continues working intensively to locate rockets from Cambodian soldiers, including multiple-launch BM 21 rockets and artillery shells fired into Thai civilian areas during the second round of clashes from 7 Dec to 27 Dec 2025, spanning 20 days.
The search is difficult because the area includes farmers' rubber plantations, cassava, and sugarcane fields. The unsearched areas include community forests and public water sources, which are the hardest to examine, and it remains unknown whether rockets have fallen into any water bodies.
Mr. Somwian Suksit, a member of the Village Security Volunteer Group in Ban Kruad district, Buriram, said villagers are now alert, inspecting their own farms, especially rubber plantations, which have the highest number of rocket landings.
Meanwhile, Sergeant Witit Sela-rak, an EOD officer in Buriram, said officers have begun searching in two subdistricts—Chanthabphet and Saitaku—as these areas lie within the range of Cambodian military rockets.
So far, 158 rockets have been found, with 5 still unexploded. The total remaining is unknown, as some have not yet been located or reported by villagers. Authorities urge villagers to follow the four principles if they find suspicious objects: do not touch, observe, remember, and report immediately. The five unexploded rockets will be reported to commanders for disposal.
