NAYPYITAW, 10 November 2021, (TON): An officer from the group said “People’s Defence Force (PDF) fighters in Bago Region killed five police officers on Tuesday in an attack on a checkpoint on the Yangon-Mandalay highway.”

The Bago Region PDF launched a 3am ambush on the Zahar Police Checkpoint in Pyu Township, 110 miles north of Yangon, and seized two rifles from the dead police officers.

The junta confirmed that five officers had died in a statement, local media outlets reported. A man from a social welfare group in Pyu told media  that several police officers were killed in the attack.

The PDF officer said “they didn’t get to shoot back at us since it was an ambush.”

“However, when we went inside the checkpoint, one of them shot back and a PDF member was injured. It was not a fatal injury though.”

At least six police officers were at the checkpoint at the time of attack but all were in plain clothes except for the one on guard duty.

He said that the PDF carried out the attack “in order to disrupt the military council’s mechanisms and to protect the civilians.