At least 31 Myanmar junta forces were killed in the past four days as People’s Defense Force groups (PDFs) and an ethnic armed organization (EAO) continued to attack regime targets across the country.
The incidents were reported in Sagaing, Magwe, Bago and Tanintharyi regions and Shan State.
The Irrawaddy has rounded up the following reports of significant attacks from PDFs and the EAO.
Some military casualty figures could not be independently verified.
Junta suffers losses in northern Shan
At least 10 regime forces were killed and 13 others injured in Muse Township, northern Shan State on Wednesday when the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) clashed with four military battalions and pro-regime militia forces near a village for several hours, the ethnic rebel group said.
The junta forces were attempting to raid a TNLA base. TNLA troops also seized a large quantity of ammunition and weapons from the regime forces.
Nine clashes between the regime forces and the TNLA broke out in Muse from July 23 to Aug. 2, in which 25 junta soldiers were killed, 27 were injured and one was arrested, the TNLA claimed.
Police officers killed in drone strikes in Sagaing
Kyauk Lone Gyi PDF said it used makeshift fixed-wing drones to drop four bombs on the birthday party of a police chief at the Kani Township police station in Sagaing Region on Thursday.
Tun Myint, the chief of the police station, and police officer San Htay were killed in the bombardment. A policewoman and two relatives of police officers suffered injuries, the PDF group said.
Intense clashes break out in Sagaing’s Depayin
Resistance fighters clash with a military unit in Depayin Township on Wednesday. / Shwebo PDF
A fierce clash broke out in Depayin Township, Sagaing Region on Wednesday when four resistance groups attacked a military unit of 130 troops from Ye U Township that was raiding villages in Depayin, said Shwebo Township People’s Defense Force, which joined the resistance attack.
Ten regime forces are believed to have been killed as the resistance groups triggered land mines to attack the military unit from five locations.
With the help of surveillance drones, the regime forces attacked the resistance members with heavy explosives. Seven resistance fighters also suffered minor injuries.
Another seven resistance groups continued to attack the military unit in Marakan Village on Wednesday afternoon, inflicting many regime casualties, said Bagan Ogre Force, which joined the attack.
Regime forces attempting to take down an anti-regime slogan bombed in Shwebo
Buffalo Soldiers Freedom Force said five regime forces were killed in Shwebo Township, Sagaing Region on Tuesday when the resistance group triggered land mines on two occasions to attack 50 regime forces attempting to take down an anti-regime banner at the entrance of the town.
The resistance group had hung a slogan reading, “Welcome to the town where the Motherf…er Min Aung Hlaing doesn’t dare to visit,” referring to the leader of the military junta.
Military unit ambushed in Sagaing
At least two regime forces were killed and five others injured in Pale Township, Sagaing Region on Thursday when Myanmar’s Royal Dragon Army (MRDA) used land mines to ambush a military unit of 80 troops between two villages.
A 30-minute shootout erupted after the mine ambush. The MRDA said it used guerrilla tactics to attack regime forces and retreated from the ambush site without casualties.
Police station pounded in Sagaing
Resistance groups fire improvised mortar rounds at a police outpost in Kyar Tat Village in Salingyi Township on Tuesday night. / Royal Tiger Fore
Royal Tiger Forces said it and other resistance groups used many improvised mortar rounds to bombard the Kyar Tat police station, where junta soldiers and police are stationed, in Salingyi Township, Sagaing Region on Tuesday night.
Regime casualties were unknown.
Regime forces, junta base bombed by resistance drones in Magwe
Resistance members conduct drone strikes on regime targets in Myaing Township, Magwe Region on Tuesday. / SSTF
Salingyi Special Task Force (SSTF) said it and other resistance groups used improvised fixed-wing drones to bomb regime forces and pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia members from the pro-regime village of Sinn Chaung in Yesagyo Township, Magwe Region on Thursday.
The junta forces were bombed while they were extorting money from vehicles and inspecting civilians on the Yesagyo-Pakokku highway.
That evening, the resistance groups conducted more drone strikes on regime forces stationed at the police station in the town of Myaing. The groups said they lost a drone in the operation.
Military casualties in both attacks were unknown.
Junta base bombarded in Magwe
Troops of Myaing PDF during a recent drone strike and ambush against regime forces in the pro-regime village of Kan Ni in Myaing Township. / Myaing PDF
Five regime forces were seriously injured in Myaing Township, Magwe Region on Tuesday when 20 resistance groups conducted over 12 hours of bombardments against the pro-regime village of Kan Ni, a base for regime forces and pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia using drones and improvised mortar rounds, according to the resistance groups. The attack started at 12 a.m. Tuesday and lasted until the afternoon, they said.
Another soldier was killed and three more injured on the same day when the resistance groups ambushed regime forces leaving Kan Ni, said Myaing PDF, which coordinated the attacks.
After the ambush, regime forces torched two houses and eight motorbikes in nearby Lat Htoke Htaw Village and stole six cows. On Sunday, one more soldier was killed and some others injured when Myaing PDF ambushed regime forces and militia members from Kan Ni.
Military checkpoint attacked in Bago
Myanmar Revolution Force (Nattalin) said it used bomb launchers to attack a military checkpoint at the Taung Nyo Dam in Nattalin Township, Bago Region on Tuesday night. Regime forces responded with firearms and heavy explosives but there were no resistance casualties.
Military casualties were unknown.
Military bases attacked in Tanintharyi
Tanintharyi Township PDF said it and other PDF groups attacked the base of the Myanmar military’s Light Infantry Battalion 561 in Nyaung Pin Kwin Village in the township in Tanintharyi Region on Tuesday afternoon.
That night, the groups attacked the military security affairs office and another police outpost in Tanintharyi town. Military casualties were unknown.
