Summary of News
- Landmine attack on military council troops in Myingdaung village, KhinOo township
- KyaukHtu Artillery fired by KyaukHtu PDF
- The base camp of PDF Kale Battalion No. 4 has been evacuated due to a series of airstrikes
- Villagers in Sagaing Division say thousands of baskets of paddy seeds have been deliberately destroyed and it is impossible to rehabilitate the agriculture.
Landmine attack on military council troops in Myingdaung village, KhinOo township
KSO said “At around 5:20 am on May 15, about 20 motorcycles of military council forces leaving Myingdaung village for YayOo which is located at the west, were attacked with three mines by KSO at Innpat turn, and about 10 of them fell at the place and the rest fell into the market.”
Then, at the Innpat turn, the military council deployed infantry and opened fire, and then the mined dead bodies and wounded troops were taken away by cars.
KyaukHtu Artillery fired by KyaukHtu PDF
In response to the threat posed to the people of KyaukHtu and villages around it on May 14, KyaukHtu PDF fired more than twenty 60 mm-artillery shells at the KyaukHtu Artillery and fifteen artillery shells at the KyaukHtu Police Station, around 00:30 am to 1:30 am today,” said KyaukHtu PDF.
According to KyaukHtu PDF, the military council troops fired back with more than twenty 120mm-artillery shells and small arms fire until 3:30 am, and the battle was fierce.
The base camp of PDF Kale Battalion No. 4 has been evacuated due to a series of airstrikes
The People’s Defense Forces (KPL) Battalion No. 4 base camp in Kale District was bombed by three fighter jets of the Military Council, fired by two MI 35 helicopters for more than half an hour, attacked by Inaga bombs using drones, and also attacked by 200 infantry.
“We had to withdraw from the camp due to the large gap between the armed forces and the insufficiency of ammunition,” said PDF Kale Battalion No.4.
After the airstrikes by the enemy military council, the enemy’s infantry, which numbered about 200, was attacked by comrades-in-arms, leaving many dead. Some comrades were injured in the airstrikes and no casualties were reported.
Villagers in Sagaing Division say thousands of baskets of paddy seeds have been deliberately destroyed and it is impossible to rehabilitate the agriculture.
A local resident in YaeOo said that it was impossible to rehabilitate the agriculture since military council had destroyed the agricultural implements, seeds and paddy in rural areas where is the agricultural heartlands.
In Sagaing Division, agriculture is being implemented by irrigation. The freshwater islands along the Chindwin River are also sparsely populated for this year’s planting season. The only way to overcome this situation is to win the revolution, said Yin Mar Pin Bo Thurein team.
Locals said that farmers in Sagaing Division can only grow enough to feed their own families for this year’s growing season. In previous years, they used to stockpile food for a year, but this year it has all been destroyed.
#Credit : Radio NUG
