The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) has captured three more regime outposts near Laukkai and taken as many as 100 soldiers prisoner, according to residents of the city near Myanmar’s border with China.
The outposts, all located in the Htin Par Keng village tract west of Laukkai, fell on Sunday afternoon, local sources told Myanmar Now.
“Friends who fled the area told me that some junta soldiers also surrendered,” said a resident of Laukkai who did not want to be identified.
While the MNDAA has not released a statement regarding the outposts or the soldiers, videos circulating online show large numbers of junta troops in the custody of the ethnic Kokang armed group.
Nearly 100 military personnel, including soldiers from Light Infantry Division 55 and members of a regime-backed militia, are believed to have been taken prisoner.
Some of the soldiers in the video are seen receiving. . .
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