At least six people, including a 10-year-old child, were wounded after military council troops shelled Innpat village in northern Khin-U Township, Sagaing Region, on the morning of 11 April.
“A child was injured by an artillery explosion. He is 10 years old. His mother, Ma Boat Sone, was also hit. Two men named Ko Win Khaing and Naing Tun were also hit. No one was killed. A shrapnel pierced Ko Win Khaing’s shoulder,” said a local woman.
Locals reported that artillery shells fired by military council troops before they entered Innpat village struck the school.
The injured are Maung Min Htet Kyaw, 10, his mother Daw Bote Sone, 43, Ko Naing Tun, 36, Ko Win Khaing, 45, U Maw, 70, and U Kyaw Zin, 57.
The junta troops who made violent incrusion into Innpat village suffered at least seven deaths in mine attacks south of the village, according to the Khin U Special Force Organization-KSO.
“Over 60 military dogs [junta soldiers] at Basic Education Middle School – Aung San in Ye-U are originally from those stationed at the Innpat Bend east of the Mu River in Khin-U Township. They were advancing to the hills south of Innpat Market. We attacked them with two cluster mines we had placed along their path. Seven junta soldiers were killed. Some were wounded. They took the bodies away in a Super Custom car,” said a KSO official.
The joint force of junta soldiers and members of the pro-military Pyu Saw Htee militia, who had suffered from the mine attacks, fired heavy weapons indiscriminately from the traditional medicine hospital, damaging a house in Innpat village and injuring four people, including a child.
In addition, a resident of Mayanaye village was also hit.
The column of junta soldiers and Pyu Saw Htee members also ransacked the houses and school in Innpat village before retreating to their base camp at Innpat Bend, KSO said.
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