Junta warplanes conducted air raids on Wednesday in Hsipaw Township, northern Shan State, killing a nun and wounding two other civilians, according to the anti-junta ethnic armed organisation currently controlling the township’s urban centre.
One of the air force’s Y-12 transport aircraft flew over Hsipaw that day, dropping bombs that damaged ten civilian homes in the residential wards of Pan Tein, Shwe Kyaung, and Oke Kyin, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) information team said.
Warplanes also bombed a monastery some four miles north of town in the village of Nam Ngone, injuring two villagers and killing a Buddhist nun, according to the TNLA.
Fighting has escalated in Hsipaw Township since August when a TNLA-led alliance of anti-junta forces captured the town of Kyaukme, around 22 miles southwest of Hsipaw, in the first week of the month.
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