Arakan Army ambushes junta vehicle in Buthidaung Twsp

By DMG 15 Nov 2022

DMG Newsroom
15 November 2022, Buthidaung

The Arakan Army (AA) ambushed a junta vehicle with landmines northeast of Ngat Pyaw Chaung Village in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township on Tuesday morning.

The ambush took place at a location locally known as Zedi Gon, with the vehicle carrying junta troops from the 22nd Light Infantry Division (LID).

“The Myanmar military suffered casualties in the attack. We still don’t know the details,” AA spokesman U Khaing Thukha told DMG.

Local residents said they heard an exchange of fire. A resident of U Kyaw Village, which is close to Ngat Pyaw Chaung, said: “We heard an exchange of fire this morning. There were also artillery strikes there yesterday. But I didn’t hear shelling today.”

DMG was unable to contact junta spokesman Major-General Zaw Min Tun and Arakan State Security and Border Affairs Minister Colonel Kyaw Thura for comment.

The AA also attacked a junta outpost at a railway station east of Kun Taung Village in Ponnagyun Township on Tuesday morning, according to local residents.

The armed group also twice attacked a junta Z-craft carrying troops from the LID No. 55 and weapons and ammunition, and a helicopter escorting the Z-craft, on November 8, according to an AA statement on November 9.

Amid the renewed fighting in Arakan State, the AA has often carried out mine attacks on junta convoys, while the regime is also increasingly using aerial drones to launch its attacks.

Fighting between the Myanmar military and the AA has been reported almost daily across Kyauktaw, Ponnagyun, Minbya, Rathedaung, Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships in Arakan State, as well as in Paletwa Township, Chin State, since August.