The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) guerrillas reported Tuesday that they have seized a checkpoint from Burma’s military junta in the Kachin region of northern Burma.
The KIA said it attacked the post, which is located in the town of Tanai after carrying out an ambush that affected about thirty soldiers who were in the area.
«People can now go to their farms freely because the checkpoint has been taken,» has asserted the guerrillas, who have gained notoriety especially after the February 2021 coup d’état.
Thus, the rebels have reported that four members of the army have been killed and five have been wounded, according to information from the newspaper ‘The Irrawaddy’. In addition, they have denounced that the military junta has arrested five Kachin youths who were working in a jade mine.
Earlier Tuesday, residents of Indaw, in the north of the country, reported that the military junta killed four more civilians after setting fire to several villages. «They have been killed near here and their bodies have been buried in a monastery,» said a resident of Pein Inn.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
