The Thai Prime Minister says that the conflict with Cambodia can “rise to a war.”

Thailand and Cambodia have exchanged heavy artillery fire for the second day on Friday, with the worst fighting in more than a decade and spread to new areas, despite international calls for a ceasefire.

At least 16 people were killed and tens of thousands explained in the escalating border battle.

Both sides blamed each other for the start of the conflict, and on Friday, it increased the speech, as Thailand Cambodia was accused of targeting civilians and intentionally claiming that Thailand was using cluster munitions, which are controversial and widely condemned munitions.

The Acting Prime Minister in Thailand Fumtham and Yuhayachhai said that Cambodia launched attacks on multiple fronts and that Thailand was defending its lands against “infiltration and aggression that causes harm to the people’s life.”

“The situation may intensify and can escalate to a state of war. For the present time, it is a confrontation that involves heavy weapons,” he told reporters.

The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting in the crisis later on Friday in New York.

Fighting in more sites on Friday

Before dawn, the fighting was re-reported with the clashes in 12 sites, an increase of six on Thursday, according to the Thailand army, who was accused of Cambodia of using Russian BM-21 missile systems to target the areas that included schools and hospitals.

The Thai army described the bombing of Cambodia as “horrific attacks”, and the blame was brought up directly on the Bennah government, which it said was led by Hun Sen, the former influential Prime Minister of four decades and the father of the current Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manit.

The Thai army added: “The targeting of deliberate civilians is a war crime, and officials must be brought to justice.”

More than 130,000 people were evacuated from the conflict areas in Thailand, where the death toll rose to 15 until early Friday, 14 of these civilians, according to the Ministry of Health. 46 people, including 15 soldiers, said.

The national government in Cambodia did not provide any details of the losses or evacuation and did not respond to the requests for comment on Friday. An official from Odiaar Menchi in Cambodia said that a civilian had been killed and wounded five, with the evacuation of 1500 families.

The fighting began early on Thursday, and the small weapons fire rushed to heavy bombing in multiple areas, 210 km along the borders, where sovereignty was disputed for more than a century.

This trigger mentioned Thailand with its ambassador in Bennah and the expulsion of the Cambodia envoy on Wednesday, in response to a second Thai soldier losing one of its parties to a land element claiming that Bangkok had recently been placed by competing forces. Cambodia has rejected it baseless.

The Ministry of Defense in Cambodia and its governmental authority condemned what they said was the use of Thailand for a large amount of cluster munitions, describing it as a violation of international law.

Thailand, not among the signatories of the cluster munition agreement, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Thailand excludes mediation

Reuters journalists in Sorne County in Thailand saw a Thai military convoy that included about ten trucks, armored vehicles and tanks that are cut through the regional roads surrounded by rice fields while moving towards the border. Intermittent bursts of explosions can be heard amid a large presence of the armed forces.

The soldiers have organized traffic on a rural road that was loaded on artillery artillery and fired, respectively, emitting from orange flats, followed by high explosions and gray smoke.

More people who were evacuated arrived at the shelters in Surin Province, and they fled their homes after hearing the shelling.

“We heard explosions very loudly, so we came here. We were very afraid,” said Ong Ying Young, 67, who wipes her tears with a towel.

“Many people are in trouble because of this war … We are very sad because we must live like this.”

The United States, a long -term ally of a treaty in Thailand, called for an immediate endowment of hostilities, as did Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, head of the ASEAN’s regional bloc, who said he spoke to the leaders of both countries and urged them to find a peaceful exit.

But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand said on Friday that it rejected mediation efforts from the third countries after offers to facilitate dialogue from the United States, China and Malaysia,

“We are standing next to our position that the dual mechanism is the best way to go out,” Nicorendig Palackur, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in an interview.

Global affairs in Canada in a statement on Friday called on both countries to “cancel tensions and engage in a dialogue towards a peaceful solution.”

Ottawa also advised the Canadians to avoid all travel to Thailand Campodia, to avoid basic travel to eastern provinces in Thailand, and to avoid basic travel to northern and northwestern provinces in Cambodia.

On Thursday, Thailand mobilized a F-16 fighter plane in a rare combat deployment, which carried out an air strike on the Kambudi military target, among the measures called Cambodia “reckless and brutal military aggression” in its attractiveness to the United Nations Security Council to address this issue.

Thailand’s use of F-16 confirms its military advantage over Cambodia, which does not have a much less fighter plane, devices and defense personnel.