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Anti-junta fighters assault regime forces’ outposts in Bago Region

As police stations and army bases came under attack by the KNLA, PDF, and BPLA on Wednesday, junta forces responded with air and heavy artillery strikes

Junta forces called in a series of airstrikes in Htantabin Township, Bago Region on Wednesday after resistance forces and their allies attacked their bases in the early morning. 

The attacks on the outposts—including a base belonging to Infantry Battalion (IB) 73, the Za Yat Gyi police station, and the Chaung Char police station—began before dawn. All three targets were located within five miles of Bago Region’s border with Karen State’s Thandaunggyi Township. 

Spokespersons for the Bamar People’s Liberation Army (BPLA), which took part in the assaults, confirmed the military conducted a series of consecutive airstrikes after the fighting began. 

According to Comrade Lin Lin, a BPLA spokesperson, the allied anti-junta forces managed to take “80 percent” control of the IB 73 base despite the airstrikes and heavy artillery deployed by the military. 

“We are concentrating our attacks on IB 73. . .

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