Five injured in regime shelling of Maungdaw Twsp village

By Admin 29 Jul 2024

DMG Newsroom
29 July 2024, Maungdaw

Five people including an administrator were injured after a mortar shell fired by Myanmar’s military regime fell and exploded in Ahtet Kanthayar Village, part of Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, on Sunday.

Ahtet Kanthayar Village is located about four miles south of Maungdaw Town and an artillery shell fired by the military’s Border Guard Force (BGF) Battalion No. 5 in Maungdaw’s Myothugyi Ward landed and exploded in the village at about 2 p.m. on Sunday, said a villager.

“BGF Battalion No. 5 in Maungdaw’s Myothugyi Ward fired multiple mortar shells on July 28. One of the shells landed and exploded in the village, wounding five people including the ward administrator,” the villager explained.

The injured have been identified as U Ba Tun Aung, administrator of the village; 47, Daw Ma Than Sein, 42; Daw Nyo Ma, 73; U Kyaw Ban Aung, 66; and Ma Warso Moe, 13. Of them, U Ba Tun Aung and U Kyaw Ban Aung are receiving medical treatment as their conditions are considered life-threatening.

The Arakkha Army (AA) is attacking the military’s BGF Battalion No. 5 in Maungdaw’s Myothugyi Ward, the only junta BGF battalion in Maungdaw Township, a local resident.

“There are hundreds of junta soldiers at BGF Battalion No. 5 because some regime soldiers retreated from their regiments and fled there. Clashes are reported on a daily basis as BGF Battalion No. 5 is besieged and attacked by the Arakkha Army,” the local resident added.

Civilian casualties continue to rise as the regime, which is being militarily defeated in Arakan State, on a daily basis conducts airstrikes, and artillery and arson attacks, on civilian areas.

At least 42 civilians were killed and 94 others were injured by junta gunshots, shellings, airstrikes, landmine blasts and torture at interrogation centres in Arakan State last month, according to a DMG tally.