At Least 14 Dead In Unprecedented Rebel Attack On Myanmar Military Town
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published August 15, 2019 | 05:35 PM
At least 14 people have been killed in ongoing fighting Thursday between Myanmar's military and rebels who mounted a series of attacks, including an unprecedented strike on an army academy, apparently in retaliation for massive drug seizures
Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Aug, 2019 ) :At least 14 people have been killed in ongoing fighting Thursday between Myanmar's military and rebels who mounted a series of attacks, including an unprecedented strike on an army academy, apparently in retaliation for massive drug seizures.
Ethnic armed rebel groups have for decades fought against the military -- and often between themselves -- for land and resources in Myanmar's east.
Experts say the area is now the world's largest meth-producing region, funding the complex web of conflicts.
Thursday's brazen assault targeted Pyin Oo Lwin, a tourist town near Mandalay, that is also home to barracks teeming with soldiers receiving training.
An AFP reporter at a police post, the site of one of the attacks, counted the bodies of seven soldiers and four policemen.
Military spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun told AFP three more people, two soldiers and one civilian, had been killed and that fighting was "still ongoing".
This brings the death toll to at least 14.
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