Huge Myanmar Junta Convoy Suffers Heavy Casualties in Sagaing: Resistance 

By Nora Aung 20 June 2022

A Myanmar junta convoy has suffered heavy causalities in Yinmabin Township, Sagaing Area, in accordance with resistance fighters.

Greater than 100 navy automobiles, together with two tanks and roughly 200 troopers, left Chin State and arrived in Pale Township on June 12.

It’s reportedly the primary deployment of tanks in Yinmabin.

Min Kong, commander of the Golden Triangle Pressure (GTF), advised The Irrawaddy that Yinmabin and Pale resistance fighters repeatedly attacked the convoy with mines, which means it typically moved lower than a mile a day. 

It arrived on the Chinese language-owned Wanbao mine in Salingyi Township on Monday.

“There have been roughly 40 to 50 regime casualties as a result of many resistance fighters

repeatedly attacked the convoy with bombs,” stated Min Kong.

He stated his group and allied folks’s protection forces attacked the convoy on Sunday, killing at the least 10 troopers and injuring many others.

The GTF uploaded a video on Fb displaying many bloody bandages on the bottom and purportedly burned troopers.

The GTF stated it was the group’s third assault on the convoy. 

From Pale to Wanbao’s mine is about 40km which took the convoy 9 days.

The resistance believes the convoy should be carrying one thing helpful due to its giant variety of automobiles. 

Greater than 5,000 folks from about 15 villages, together with Kayay Sar Kya, Kaung Sint, Sel

Pin Kan and Kan Kone, on the Pale-Yinmabin-Monywa highway fled their roadside properties to keep away from preventing.

On Monday the convoy set fireplace to Kaung Sint and  killed a person in his 50s. 

Three civilians had been detained and carried with the convoy as hostages.

By the top of Might, an estimated 18,886 homes and different buildings had been burned down by the regime throughout Myanmar and Sagaing has suffered probably the most, dropping an estimated 13,480 homes, in accordance with Information for Myanmar, an unbiased group monitoring junta atrocities.

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