An eight-year-old girl was killed by artillery fire from military council troops on 6 March after being displaced by regime’s military operations in Khin-U Township in Sagaing Region.
Violent incursions of junta columns into seven villages, including Monhla, Thayetkone, Kalon, Tharwuthti and Shinmindin, forced more than 8,000 residents to flee to safety, according to the township’s true information team.
According to reports, artillery shells fired by junta forces killed eight-year-old girl Ma Suu Yadana Myint and wounded two others from Monhla village.
“The villagers fled to safer places out of fear when the military council troops entered the villages. The eight-year-old girl from Monhla was killed by junta shells while she was resting under a mango tree. The injured are being treated in safer places,” said the spokesman of Khin-U Township True Information Team.
During the displacement, a 90-year-old woman from Thayetkone village also died after catching a cold.
“She passed away this morning. We couldn’t take anything with us because we had to run for our lives. The weather is as you know,” he continued.
Another displaced woman from Kalon village said, “We’re in our 70s and 80s, and our health isn’t so good anymore. We got into a lot of trouble because we had to flee this way. We had to flee with only the clothes we had on. The situation makes it very difficult for our health.”
Columns of military council troops have been conducting military operations day after day in villages in the Sagaing Region, torching houses and shooting at residents, forcing them to flee to safer areas, locals said.
At present, the displaced people are living with difficulties in the forests as pregnant women, elderly people and children are among them. The Khin-U Township information team has appealed for donations of medical supplies and food as they’re urgently needed.
Sent by Narinjara News.