NAYPYITAW, 08 September 2021, (TON): Resistance forces carried out multiple attacks on junta targets in Magway and Sagaing regions, as Myanmar’s shadow government stepped up its campaign to oust the country’s military dictatorship.

The Magway-based Beikthano People’s Defence Force (PDF) said in a statement that it hit five military targets in four of the region’s townships.

The group, which takes its name from an ancient city founded in the region some 2,000 years ago, said “its members attacked Light Infantry Battalion 103, based in Taungdwingyi Township, with a bomb.”

It said “it then set off explosions targeting two transmission towers used to supply electricity to the No.17 Defence Appliances Factory in the village of Nyaung Kone in Myothit Township.”

According to the statement “the homes of a municipal official in Yaysakyo Township and the Ku Lar Shin village administrator in Natmauk Township were also bombed in pre-dawn attacks.”

Regime forces providing security for a branch of the state-owned Myanma Economic Bank in Natmauk were the fifth target, the statement added.