Clashes continued this week in southern Nawnghkio Township, northern Shan State as the ethnic armed group holding the township’s urban centre fought regime forces for full territorial control, according to local sources and anti-junta fighters.
After a skirmish broke out on Tuesday morning between the military and members of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in the village of Yae Win, regime forces began firing on the area using heavy artillery, sources said.
“The battle near Yae Win Village yesterday lasted around an hour and a half,” a TNLA-connected source said on Wednesday.
Yae Win is located some 14 miles southwest of Nawnghkio, a town on the Mandalay-Muse road used by freight truckers carrying goods to the China-Myanmar border for trade. The Ta’ang ethnic armed group has held the town since capturing it on July 10 of this year.
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