NAYPYITAW, 28 August 2021, (TON): “According to locals who were among those displaced in the assault “Myanmar junta soldiers killed one civilian and allegedly burned down houses during a raid on a village in Sagaing Region’s Taze Township.”

Nearly 100 soldiers stormed the village of Kar Paung Kya in six trucks at 2am, a resident said.

He told that the troops shot a man who came out of his house to see what was happening, and arrested another while the rest of the villagers fled to the nearby forest.

The deceased was identified as 25-year-old Lwin Moe.

Hein Thar, 28, was the man reportedly taken into junta custody.

The local source added that after the raid, the soldiers occupied the 800-household village.

At around 10pm, he told media that the troops torched several houses in Kar Paung Kya and fired both light weapons and heavy artillery into the areas where residents were hiding.

He said “before they fired the artillery, we also heard gunfire. We were unable to go and see what was happening.”

Another villager said that “only buffaloes, cows and pigs are left in the village.”