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    7 months ago

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    BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar ’s military-controlled government said Thursday that almost half of more than 250 cargo trucks stranded by fighting against ethnic minority armed groups near the northeastern border with China have been destroyed in a fire caused by bombs dropped by drones.

    Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, spokesperson of the ruling military council, said in a statement phoned to state television MRTV that trucks parked in a compound near a trade zone in Muse township caught fire after drones belonging to ethnic armed organizations launched an attack at about 9:45 a.m. on Thursday.

    Armed resistance arose after the army seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and has tenaciously carried on against the military regime’s better-armed and more numerous security forces.

    The pro-democracy People’s Defense Force has joined hands with several of the well-organized, battle-hardened ethnic armed groups that have been fighting Myanmar’s central government for greater autonomy for decades.

    It also said that “key transport routes in townships with active fighting” had been blocked by both the army and the ethnic armed groups, “restricting people’s movements to safer locations, as well as hampering humanitarian access.”

    Laukkaing is notorious for hosting major organized criminal enterprises including cyber-scam operations controlled by Chinese investors in collusion with local Myanmar warlords.


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