[ RFA ] Hundreds Flee During Four Days of Fighting in Lashio township, Shan State, Myanmar

By | September 9, 2021

Hundreds Flee During Four Days of Fighting in Myanmar’s Shan State

More than 800 civilians are sheltering in Mongko township and at least 17 government troops are dead. Four days of continuous fighting between Myanmar’s military and a rebel army in northern Shan state’s Lashio city, near the country’s border with China, have left at least 17 junta troops dead and forced hundreds of civilians to flee their homes to safety, local media and residents said Tuesday.

Four days of continuous fighting between Myanmar’s military and a rebel army in northern Shan state’s Lashio city, near the country’s border with China, have left at least 17 junta troops dead and forced hundreds of civilians to flee their homes to safety, local media and residents said Tuesday.

Clashes began on Aug. 28 when military troops attacked members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the formal name of the Kokang army, and escalated the following day throughout Lashio’s townships of Pangsang, Kyukoke and Mongko, local sources told RFA’s Myanmar Service.

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