Three Maungdaw Twsp residents wounded in BGF artillery strike

By Admin 04 Jan 2024

DMG Newsroom
4 January 2024, Maungdaw

Three residents in Kanthayar Village, part of Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, were injured after an artillery shell fired by the No. 5 Border Guard Force fell and exploded in the village at around 1 a.m. on January 4.

U Kaung Ha Nyo, 80, Ma Moe Sabei, 18, and Ma Waso Moe, 10, all sustained shrapnel wounds.

“Two mortar shells landed in the village. Three people were wounded after a mortar shell fell and exploded in the village. U Kaung Hla Nyo sustained severe shrapnel wounds to his right thigh,” said a local man from Kanthayar Village.

The injured have been sent to Maungdaw Hospital. The No. 5 Border Guard Force has often fired mortar shells into nearby villages since the Arakan Army (AA) attacked Bawdigon BGF outpost on November 28.

Thousands of local people from Kanthayar Village and nearby villages such as Kainggyi, Bawdigon and Mawrawady have fled to safer locations following the regime’s artillery strikes.

“Villagers have fled to safer locations. We have fled our home since one month ago,” said a displaced resident from Kanthayar Village.

Three local residents including a pregnant woman in Shweyinaye Village, Maungdaw Township, were injured in a junta artillery strike on December 4. A junta artillery strike wounded a local woman in Ywathayar Village on December 15.

So far at least 58 people have been killed and 198 others injured in Arakan State and neighbouring Chin State’s Paletwa Township during the latest hostilities, according to a DMG tally. 

[Editor’s Note: The death toll does not include residents of Pauktaw, where fierce fighting continues and reliable information remains difficult to ascertain.]