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Thai EOD teams clear remaining BM-21 rockets in Surin
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SURIN — 8 May 2026, Explosive ordnance disposal teams in Surin province are racing to locate and destroy the final unexploded BM-21 rockets left from clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border before local residents resume farming activities.
Key facts
- The operation focused on six remaining impact sites linked to the same barrage of BM-21 rockets fired during fighting on 24 July 2025, the same attack that killed an 8-year-old boy known as “Nong Namkhong”
- The BM-21 rocket attack on Ban Chorok village occurred during cross-border fighting on 24 July 2025, when Cambodian forces fired multiple rockets into Thai territory, killing two civilians and damaging homes in the area.
- At a second site in a nearby sugarcane field, crews dug almost 10 metres deep but failed to locate the rocket after groundwater flooded the excavation area.
- Officials said the rocket likely penetrated deeper than 10 metres into the soft, rain-soaked soil during the monsoon season and no longer posed a danger
Summary
Pol. Lt. Col. Watcharin Chanthom, head of the EOD special operations unit in Surin provincial police, led officers and humanitarian demining teams on Thursday to sugarcane fields and rice paddies west of Ban Chorok village in Dan subdistrict, Kap Choeng district.
The operation focused on six remaining impact sites linked to the same barrage of BM-21 rockets fired during fighting on 24 July 2025, the same attack that killed an 8-year-old boy known as “Nong Namkhong” and 32-year-old Bandit Unjit.