Sixteen resistance groups in Pakokku District attacked junta troops at a police station and other regime buildings on September 19.
After reportedly suffering heavy losses, the junta launched airstrikes on Kamma town, displacing around 2,000 residents.
“Troops are still in the town, breaking into houses and shops and taking valuables,” said a resident sheltering with his family in a Pakokku Township village.
Kamma is 30km south of Pakokku.
A member of Myaing People’s Defense Force (PDF) said: “More reinforcements have arrived in the town and they are breaking into shops and houses. They’re taking rice, cooking oil, phones and jewelry.”
A junta helicopter shot at random into Kamma, injuring a resident, the resistance group said.
Light Infantry Division 101 reinforcements were attacked with drones in a convoy on Thursday.
Convoys from Pakokku and Nyaung Jippin village carrying over 100 troops were also attacked, resulting in numerous junta injuries, Pakokku PDF claimed.
The group said troops remain isolated in the town, surrounded by resistance groups.
On September 3, resistance groups raided Kamma police station and immigration office and killed at least seven junta troops. The junta responded with a strike by a Mi-35 helicopter and reinforcements from Pakokku.
Residents said they will not return until the troops leave.
“We could not bring any valuables when we left. We fear we will have lost everything we have worked through our lives to create,” said Daw Than Than, a Kamma resident.
