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Myanmar: Two junta soldiers, including a major, killed in Sanchaung bomb attack
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NAYPYITAW, 11 September 2021, (TON): Two soldiers including a major were killed in the guerilla bomb attack against a military vehicle in Yangon’s Sanchaung Township, it has emerged.
Several junta troops were riding in a truck near the intersection of Bargaryar and Baho roads at around 4pm when a group of men tossed an explosive inside.
A major who was sitting in the front passenger seat was killed in a shootout following the explosion, several local media outlets reported.
The other soldier, a private, was in the back of the truck when he died. Further details about the dead soldiers were not immediately available.
The attack took place next to a busy market, but two guerilla groups who claimed responsibility said no civilians were harmed, the BBC’s Burmese service reported.
The groups, who call themselves Revolution Force and Generation Freedom Army, codenamed the attack Tigre Ogre, the outlet reported.
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