The anti-junta Shwebo District People’s Defence Force (PDF) arrested 16 police officers from a station it raided with its allies in Sagaing Region’s Wetlet Township last week, according to the publicly mandated National Unity Government (NUG) under which it fights.
The NUG’s Military Region 1 announced on Saturday that the PDF seized 31 light weapons, 6,400 bullets, 32 grenades and other military supplies during the November 21 attack on the site in Shwe Pan Kone village, located 11 miles west of Wetlet town.
After three policemen were reportedly killed in the early morning assault, the remaining officers attempted to escape rather than surrender to the resistance. Among those captured was the sheriff, the NUG said.
“They only fled after realising that they couldn’t win. We found them hiding in the woods,” said a member of one of the guerrilla forces involved in the attack. . .
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