A resident of Thaung Pyin village in Arakan State’s Myebon Township died after stepping on a landmine on May 28, family members said.

A man from Nga Pukwa village in Minbya Township, Arakan State, was severely injured by gunfire on May 27, villagers told DMG.

Family members want authorities to investigate the deaths of five people whose bodies were found in shallow graves last month in Arakan State’s Minbya Township.

With dozens of houses burned down at Meeletwa (lower) village in Chin State’s Paletwa Township this week, former residents say they will now struggle to return home even as pressure mounts for some to vacate the schools that they have been displaced to.

Fish and prawn traders are having difficulties sending their goods from Arakan State to Yangon due to COVID-19, said Daw Khin Khin Kyi, assistant head of the Department of Fisheries in Kyaukphyu district.

Internally displaced people (IDPs) who are sheltering at government school buildings in Arakan State must relocate by June 15, IDP camp managers and MPs have said.

The Arakan State government plans to provide cultivation assistance for farmers in conflict-affected parts of the state who face difficulties getting their crops planted in time for the monsoon growing season, said U Kyaw Lwin, state minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry and Mining.

The government has no plans this fiscal year to make the upgrades needed in order for international flights to land at Thandwe Airport in southern Arakan State, the gateway to Ngapali Beach.

Two men detained by a Tatmadaw column in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township on May 24 were released the following evening after a lengthy interrogation in the mountains outside their village. 

A resident of Daung Taw Yoe village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, has gone missing after leaving home to gather vegetables at a nearby cemetery on May 23, family members said.

Houses went up in flames in the abandoned village of Meeletwa (lower) in Chin State’s Paletwa Township on May 26, according to the Chin State government. 

The younger brother of a local official in Taungup Township was taken in for questioning by Taungup police on the afternoon of May 25 and has been charged under section 50(i) of the Counter-Terrorism Law.

Count Mrauk-U’s bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site as being among the multitude of matters put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The number of Myanmar nationals returning from China to their homes in Arakan State amid the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 3,500 on May 25, according to the Arakan State Department of Disaster Management.

The University of Community Health Alumni Association on May 24 called for the immediate release of a village healthcare worker allegedly detained by the Arakan Army (AA) in Rathedaung Township earlier this month.

A ward administrator was stabbed to death by four masked assailants in the Arakan State capital Sittwe on the morning of May 25.

Two villagers from Kan Thit village in Ponnagyun Township were seriously injured by a pair of landmine blasts on May 24, according to U Kan Tun Aung, a 10-household head from the village. 

Twenty-six people from Ann Township, Arakan State, who had been detained by the Tatmadaw for about a week were released on May 23. 

The Arakan State government has been arranging to facilitate the transportation of civilians who are seriously wounded in war, State Minister for Security and Border Affairs Colonel Min Than said on May 21.