Panicked villagers fled as gunfire sparked border clash fears in Thailand.

Footage shows vehicles leaving their homes as gunshots broke out some two miles from a frontier village in Si Sa Ket province on Tuesday.

Fearing the conflict might escalate, locals fled into Thailand with their belongings in tow.

Farmer Thidakorn Somsap, 54, said he was out in the fields when his wife called to warn him about the gunfire.

He said: 'I rushed home immediately to take care of my elderly relatives because they have difficulty moving.

'We had already packed our essential items and clothing so we were able to quickly load them into my pickup truck.

'When we asked our neighbors, we learned some families had already evacuated while others stayed. The village headman told us to wait for an official announcement and not to panic.'

Aphiwit Lalert, a village security volunteer, said no violence had erupted so far, but residents remained tense.

He said: 'The villagers are deeply anxious. Some families have gone to stay with relatives outside the area, while others have rented hotel rooms. We don't trust the Cambodian military. They could fire at any moment so we have to stay safe.'

The 2nd Army reported that four Cambodian soldiers approached the barbed wire fence and fired three shots near a military outpost at 1:22 pm. Thai soldiers did not respond and no one was reported injured.

The army said the shots were likely intended to gauge Thailand's reaction.

Protests from the Cambodia side broke out along the Thai-Cambodia border last week, in the worst escalation since a military ceasefire was brokered by ASEAN members in July.

Thai riot police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the civilians who were trying to tear down razor wire fences and hurling insults at the officers .

Cambodian officials claimed 23 villagers were injured, while the Thai authorities said several troops were also wounded.

Thailand has since given Cambodia 30 days to clear the area if no agreement is reached after the next General Border Committee talk.

Thailand and Cambodia have been fighting for more than a century over several undemarcated sections of their 817-kilometre (508-mile) border, which was originally mapped by France in 1907 while Cambodia was still its protectorate.

But tensions flared in the long-disputed frontier as both accused each other of instigating violence on July 24, which killed at least 48 and temporarily displaced some 300,000 on both sides of the border.

Cambodia claimed responsibility for an alleged war crime, firing rockets into Thailand that struck a gas station, killing a number of children.

The two nations have reached a shaky truce following talks facilitated by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).