Myanmar rebel group seizes town along road to china
Myanmar ethnic minority fighters said on Wednesday they had seized a town along a key trade highway to China following days of clashes, in another blow to the military.Northern Shan State has been rocked by fighting since late last month, when an alliance of ethnic armed groups renewed an offensive against the military along the highway to China’s Yunnan province.
The clashes have shredded a Beijing-brokered truce that in January halted an offensive by the alliance of the Arakan Army (AA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA).
The town of Naungcho “is totally ours”, General Tar Bhone Kyaw of the TNLA said.
Earlier on Wednesday, a military source said that ethnic minority fighters were in control of “most” of the town.
Naungcho is around 50 km down the highway from the former British hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin, home to the military’s elite officer training academy.
Another road from the town leads to Taunggyi, the capital of Shan state.
On Tuesday the junta said 18 civilians in Lashio had been killed and 24 wounded in shelling, rocket and drone attacks by the alliance. The military has carried out several air strikes around the town of about 1,50,000 people.
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