Army column reportedly attacked by PDF and other resistance group in Naypyitaw – 11 junta soldiers killed; Tatmadaw denies incident
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People’s Defence Force joins hands with other resistance group to attack #Myanmar army column in Nay Pyi Taw 11 junta soldiers reportedly killed, says @Myanmar_Now_Eng quoting @NUGMyanmar Army spokesman denies incident
The Naypyitaw chapter of the People’s Defence Force (PDF) released a statement on Wednesday announcing that they had attacked a military column belonging to the coup regime on Monday and inflicted multiple casualties on the junta’s side.
The statement explained that the PDF, in cooperation with members of another unnamed Special Region armed group, had a clash with junta forces in Pyinmana Township at 4pm. The PDF then allegedly attacked a reinforcement column sent to the area by the military at 7pm that day.
Some 11 junta troops were reportedly killed in the clashes, according to the PDF’s Naypyitaw chapter.
The secretary of the National Unity Government’s (NUG) Ministry of Defence Naing Htoo Aung confirmed both the clash and the casualties, and told Myanmar Now on Friday that the account of the incident provided by the PDF was correct.
Gen Zaw Min Tun, the deputy minister of the junta’s information department, told pro-military People Media on Thursday that “there was no clash whatsoever” in the area in question.
“They’re trying to fool people from other regions into thinking that this is even happening in Naypyitaw,” Zaw Min Tun is quoted as saying.
Multiple Pyinmana locals told Myanmar Now that the PDF claim was in fact true, and that the military column was attacked by resistance forces in the southeastern part of the township, on a hillside near the Kayah State border on the easten bank of the Paunglaung River.