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Myanmar: PDF fighters ‘kill 22’ soldiers and capture three police officers during clashes in central Myanmar
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NAYPYITAW, 10 September 2021, (TON): Resistance fighters in Sagaing Region’s Myaung Township have said they killed 12 junta soldiers and captured three police officers on Wednesday, while 10 more troops were killed the next day as they travelled to Myaung as reinforcements.
The fighting started in Myit Son village at around 10am, when members of the local chapter of the People’s Defence Force (PDF), which calls itself the Civilian Defence and Security Organisation of Myaung, came under heavy artillery fire.
The PDF fighters fled the village along with its residents and junta soldiers took over. The fighters then launched attacks on the occupying soldiers throughout the afternoon, killing nine, according to a statement by the Myaung PDF.
A PDF member told Myanmar Now “later that day, PDF fighters raided a police station in the nearby village of Kyauk Yit. Several officers fled with their weapons but three, including the station chief, surrendered and are now being detained in a safe place.”
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