A soldier stands guard in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo; STR/AFP/Getty Images.
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4th. Sept. 2023. 3:50 PM. A Bomb attack on a government compound in the Myanmar border hub of Myawady killed five government and security officials and wounded 11 policemen, sources told AFP today.
The town on the border with Thailand has seen sporadic clashes between the military and anti-junta fighters since a coup in 2021 plunged the country into turmoil.
According to AFP news on Monday, early Sunday evening, two “drop bombs” fell into a compound containing the district police office and general administration office.
The dead included a military officer, two police officers and two officials from the administration department, they said.
Eleven “junior and senior” police officers were wounded, five critically, they added.
The junta said “some security members and government staff” were wounded in the attack, without giving a figure.
It blamed anti-coup “People’s Defence Forces” and the Karen National Liberation Army, an established ethnic rebel group that has fought the military for decades.
TRT news report that, Anti-junta fighters battling to overturn the coup that deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s government have used commercial drones for surveillance and also as crude bomb-dropping devices.
Since the coup, the KNLA and PDF groups have clashed sporadically with the military in Myawady town and its surrounds in Karen state, sending tens of thousands fleeing into Thailand.
