Myanmar air force kills six in bombing near Magway Region oil fields

A junta aerial assault struck a restaurant on Tuesday evening in a resistance-held area of Magway Region, killing at least six people including four resistance fighters, according to local sources. “The aircraft dropped bombs directly on a small eatery near a school at around 5:30pm, striking without hovering or circling beforehand,” a man from a nearby village said. The village of Ba Hin, where the bombing took place, is 16 miles northwest of the junta-controlled town of Myaing, located in an oil-rich part of Magway Region and near operational oil fields. Local sources said there was neither a resistance base in the village nor any fighting in the area at the time of the air force’s attack. The four resistance fighters killed in the junta bombing raid were members of Battalion 12 of the People’s Defence Forces (PDF) based in Pale Township, Sagaing Region, resistance sources said. Further details about the incident—including identifying information about the victims—remain unconfirmed at the time of reporting. Photos posted on social media showed locals putting damaged bodies with badly mutilated limbs in body bags after the incident. Local sources said another airstrike had occurred two days earlier in the village of Hpya Thee around 18 miles northeast of Ba Hin, injuring four civilians. Victims’ bodies being removed from the scene of the airstrike in Myaing Township (Photo: Facebook/We Love Myaing group) Airstrikes in Nawnghkio Despite announcing the extension of a temporary ceasefire through the end of May, Myanmar’s military regime has also continued to carry out airstrikes in northern Shan State. It has primarily targeted Nawnghkio Township and other areas of where the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an anti-junta ethnic armed group, is active. According to spokespersons for the Ta’ang armed group, two villages—Ho Hko and Yadanar Thein Gi, both less than 25 miles outside of the TNLA-controlled town of Nawnghkio—were targeted in separate junta airstrikes on Tuesday and Saturday. Junta troops also fatally shot a 27-year-old man sheltering at a monastery near Ohn Ma Thee village around 12 miles south of Nawnghkio, the group’s press team said. “Displaced residents have been relocated elsewhere as the monastery was targeted by sniper fire again today,” a displaced man who had been sheltering at the monastery told Myanmar Now on Wednesday. There were also reports of junta drone strikes on Friday in Taung Kya village, less than three miles northeast of the junta-controlled Bant Bway village in southern Nawnghkio Township, and the TNLA claimed another airstrike had damaged a Chinese-operated mining site in the township five days earlier.

Myanmar air force kills six in bombing near Magway Region oil fields

The regime also continued airstrikes in Nawnghkio Township, on the frontline of its conflict with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), despite having declared the extension of a ceasefire until the end of May

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