A courthouse operated by the publicly mandated, shadow National Unity Government (NUG) in Pale Township, Sagaing Region was bombed by the junta air force around noon on Tuesday.
According to Zaw Htet, an NUG-affiliated court official who is also a member of the people’s administration team for Pale Township, junta aircraft dropped four bombs on the courthouse.
“The bombs fell very close to where I was working and I could actually see them hit the ground. I thought I was going to die, but when I heard the first bomb go off, I realised I had survived. They dropped the second bomb just a minute later,” Zaw Htet said.
He was 800 metres from the courthouse when the bombs fell.
The bombed courthouse was opened by the NUG around eight months ago in Min Taing Pin village, some eight miles west of Pale on the Pale-Gangaw. . .
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