Thailand opened its permanent border checkpoint at Ban Khlong Luek in Sa Kaeo province early on Sunday morning to assist a critically ill Cambodian lieutenant general.
At 7.35am, Thai security officials opened the border gate to allow the emergency transfer of Lt Gen Pech Vanna, Deputy Director-General of Cambodia’s Border Affairs Department and Head of the Cambodia-Thailand Border Coordination Office, according to the Sa Kaeo office of Radio Thailand.
He was urgently transported across the Thai-Cambodian Friendship Bridge to Kasemrad International Hospital in Aranyaprathet district for immediate medical treatment.
Due to bilateral border tensions, Thailand has rescheduled the checkpoint's opening times. It is now open only between 8am and 4pm.
(Photo: Sa Kaeo office of Radio Thailand)