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Myanmar: Kokang armed group reports major losses on junta’s side in Mongko battle
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NAYPYITAW, 23 December 2021, (TON): According to a statement issued by the MNDAA’s information department “a military offensive against the ethnic Kokang Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army in the Mongko area resulted in the death of around 100 of the junta’s own troops in a battle over the weekend.”
The coup regime’s armed forces reportedly used fighter jets and heavy artillery to attack the Mang Yang base of the MNDAA, located nine miles east of Mongko town in northern Shan State’s Muse Township.
According to the Kokang armed group “the shelling began, and was followed by a ground attack hours later.”
A Mongko local told media “they were firing the shells from within the township. The shells hit the town.”
He added that the shells appeared to have been fired from the sixth ward where the military held a tactical outpost on a hill.
Around 100 Myanmar army soldiers were killed in the clash, the MNDAA said, and more than 80 injured.
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