He said soldiers were last week instructed not to eat any more mushrooms collected in the area, which has been the site of two skirmishes between Cambodia and Thailand since July 2008, which killed two Cambodian and two Thai soldiers.

The clashes have strained relations between Thailand and Cambodia, both of which claim land surrounding the temple, a Unesco World Heritage Site that was granted to Cambodia in a 1962 International Court of Justice ruling.

The temple has been at the centre of disputed claims between Thailand and Cambodia since the 1950s.