Many houses were damaged in Tedim, northern Chin State, in Myanmar regime bombing on Monday morning following fighting with the Chin Brotherhood.
At least eight bombing raids were reported on the town but casualty numbers are unknown.
Pro-junta Telegram channels said junta Y-12 aircraft bombed a stadium and textile factory where anti-regime forces were based in Tedim. The township General Administration Department was reportedly hit, killing police officers.
In retaliation after the attacks, regime forces torched around 30 houses in the town, a resident told The Irrawaddy.
“The rain stopped the fires. Without the rain many more houses would have burned,” he said.
A spokesman for the Zoland People’s Defense Force told The Irrawaddy that the Chin Brotherhood had seized a junta base in Tedim.
“We are fighting to seize the town. The fighting continues and junta aircraft keep coming,” he said.
A commander from the group died in the fighting in Tedim.
The Chin Brotherhood said it captured 10 Tedim police officers, he said.
Some residents had already abandoned Tedim ahead of the fighting and displaced Tonzang residents sheltering in Tedim have left the town.
A Tedim resident said: “A junta hilltop outpost has been shelling us. Some people fled when they heard about possible fighting but others stayed because they didn’t think that junta aircraft would come to the town. Now everyone is leaving. Those who left Tonzang are moving again.”
Most Tedim residents headed to Kale in Sagaing Region and nearby villages.
The regime also bombed Mwelbin and Ventel villages in Tedim Township on Sunday morning, killing a father and his son and wounding several others.
