Myanmar regime bombs northern Shan State town

By Admin 01 Jul 2024

DMG Newsroom
1 July 2024, Kyaukme, northern Shan State

Junta jet fighters have dropped bombs in recent days on multiple locations in Kyaukme,  northern Shan State, where renewed fighting between the Myanmar military and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) is ongoing and fierce, the ethnic armed group said in a statement.

A junta jet fighter on Sunday night dropped a 500-lb bomb on Ward-1 in Kyaukme, destroying a hotel, a Buddhist monastery and about 20 homes.

The regime airstrike came after the TNLA took control of important locations in downtown Kyaukme.

A fire broke out after an artillery shell fired by the junta fell and exploded near a filling station in Kyuakme’s Ward-9 on the morning of June 30.

Two local women were killed and one man was injured, meanwhile, in a junta artillery attack on Kyaukme’s Ward-8 on June 29.

The military’s airstrikes and artillery attacks killed 22 civilians and injured 30 others in Kyaukme, Nawnghkio and Mogok townships from June 25-29 after the China-brokered Haigen Agreement signed between the regime and the Three Brotherhood Alliance was violated by the regime, the TNLA said.

The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kyaukme, Nawnghkio and Mogok townships amid the renewed fighting has reached nearly 3,000.