Two IDPs killed, 19 others injured in airstrike on Taungup Twsp village

By Admin 02 Dec 2024

DMG Newsroom
2 December 2024, Taungup

Two internally displaced people (IDPs) were killed and 19 others were injured in a junta airstrike on Khayaing Village, part of Arakan State's Taungup Township, on Sunday evening.

A junta jet fighter dropped four bombs on Khayaing Village at around 3:30 p.m. on December 1, killing two IDPs on the spot.

"Two IDPs were killed and many others were wounded in the regime air assault on the village. The injured are receiving medical treatment," said a resident of Taungup.

The deceased have been identified as Daw Ma Thein, 71, from Taungup, and Maung Kyaw Thet Naing, 17, from Thayaraye Village.

The military regime, which is all but defeated militarily in Arakan State, is conducting airstrikes targeting areas where fighting with the Arakkha Army (AA) has broken out, as well as areas where displaced people and residents live, leaving many among these populations living in fear.

"The military has already lost the war against the Arakkha Army, so it is relentlessly attacking civilians who are like water in the palm of its hand. The regime is carrying out daily airstrikes and instilling fear in the people," said a young man in Taungup.

Several stalls at a night market in Taungup's Kanpaing Ward were reduced to ashes in a junta air assault on November 25.

A local man in his 30s trapped by fighting in Taungup was killed in a junta airstrike on the town on November 17.

The AA has since seized control of Taungup Town and clashes between the military and AA are escalating in Taungup Township as the ethnic armed group attacks junta battalions under the regime's No. 5 Military Operations Command.