Thein Zaw(Mgdaw), 17 June 2019

Concerns havebeen raised among the local villagers in clashes areas of Min Bra and PonnagyunTownships after finding pieces of dead bodies the villagers said.

 Thewitnessed residents nearby Sabarhtar villages of Min Bra Township and Yoe Nguand Kyauk Seik of Ponnagyun township said that the buried bodies and its piecessuch as limbs and abdomens were fear seen with the Tatmataw (Myanmar Army)uniforms on the ground.

U Myo Zaw Aung,the village administrator of Sabarhtar said that ‘The fighting broke out onJune the third near the village. The dead bodies may have been buried nearbythe village and now its pieces appeared out on the ground. Moreover, someunexploded artillery shells and Tatmataw uniforms are recognizably seen whichmade the villagers get scared.  That’swhy, we have submitted informed letter to the authority for the removal ofthem’.

 U HlaThein Aung, Rakhine State Member of Parliament confirmed that after his visitas he saw the pieces of corpses and unexploded weapons shells.

Asked about thefinding of them, Army spoke person Brigadier General Zaw Min Htun , told TheNarinjara News that ‘ We can’t exactly identified yet whether the corpsesbelong to Tatmataw or not because there was no fighting on June the third’.

 It wasreportedly learned that Six villagers died and eight others critically woundedin monastery (evacuation-center)when the weapon shells hit while the villagerssheltering after hearing the tremendous explosion nearby the village on June 3.The funeral of the killing corpses of the villagers were held and graved aftera few days of the clashes at the village’s cemetery.

Meanwhile, thepieces of the three soldiers’ corpses were similarly seen by the residentsbeside the railway between Yoe Ngu village and Kyauk Seik village of Ponnagyuntownship. However, the Narinjara News has not confirmed it yet whether the deadbodies were related with Thatmadaw or not.