Thai soldiers have shot dead three Cambodian men for illegally cutting rosewood on the frontier of Thai territory, Cambodian official confirmed on Sunday.

"I got this information this morning that three Cambodian men were killed by Thai soldiers," Prach Chan, governor of Cambodia's Battambang province, told Xinhua by telephone. "Thai side claimed that those men illegally entered Thai territory for logging."

He added that their corpses were repatriated to Cambodia on Sunday morning.

The incident happened on Saturday on the border between Battambang province's Samlot district and Thailand.

Cambodian people have frequently been killed by Thai soldiers when they illegally crossed border to log in Thai territory.

According to a report of Cambodia-Thailand Border Relation Office released in August, during the first six months of this year, Thai soldiers killed at least 38 Cambodian illegal loggers.

It added that the Thai authorities also deported 68,659 Cambodians illegally crossing the border during the same period.

Cambodia shares over 800 kilometers of border with Thailand to the north and west.