NAYPYITAW, 09 November 2021, (TON): Guerilla fighters working under the shadow National Unity Government (NUG) attacked a military vehicle in Yangon Region, killing seven junta soldiers and injuring 13, a spokesperson for the NUG’s armed wing.

Some 25 soldiers were travelling in the army truck at around 10pm in the Kungyangon Township village of Ingalone, about 70km south of the city of Yangon, when resistance forces attacked them with guns and explosives.

NUG Yangon Regional Command’s Information and Psychological Warfare officer said “we couldn’t stop the car but there was a clash,”

He said “they only managed to shoot back at us two to three times and then drove away.”

The resistance fighters, a coalition of local guerrillas and the NUG’s own forces, suffered no casualties in the clash, he added. The NUG learned about the military’s casualties via informants, who said that some of the injured soldiers may also die.

The officer said “more attacks were being planned in Yangon Region and junta soldiers should defect to the Civil Disobedience Movement as soon as possible.”

The attack is among the first to go ahead under the direct control of the NUG. So far since the February coup, the vast majority of armed resistance to the junta has come from self organising groups of civilians-turned-fighters, as well as from established ethnic rebel groups.