NAYPYITAW, 05 October 2021, (TON): A resistance group based in Sagaing Region’s Palal Township claims that it killed a total of 61 regime soldiers in two clashes.

In a statement released later the same day, the People’s Revolution Army (PRA) said that the casualties were the result of a landmine attack and two shootouts.

The fighting which the group said had continued through the day, broke out on the Palal-Khin Aye road near the border between Sagaing and Magway regions early Sunday morning.

Japan Gyi, a spokesperson for the PRA, told media “we used landmines, which led to a shootout. The place is quite far from any villages. We chose it because they usually terrorize villages near places where they have been attacked.”

The group also claimed that only one of its members had been injured.

The first clash started at around 7am near the Naga Ma hills, some 3km west of the village of Wan Be Chaing in Palal, and resulted in the death of 33 junta troops, according to the PRA.

The group said “at around 11am, fighting broke out in the Nat Htaik (Pone Taung) hills, about 18km from the site of the first clash. Another 28 soldiers were killed in that fight.”