Narinjara News, 5 August 2022

A civilian fromMyit Na village under Min Bya township of Rakhine State lost his right legas the 60 years old person stepped on a landmine that exploded suddenly.

U Shwe Sein Aungfaced the accident as he was collecting firewood in the jungles of mountain at8 am of 5 August.

According to  KoAnn Thar Gyi, who is helping the villager, informed  NarinjaraNews  that  U Shwe Sein Aung’s right leg was broken belowthe knee. He was taken to Min Bya hospital in a critical condition.

The locals claimthat a company of military personnel is  stationed in the east ofMyit Na village and the entire area (hill no 144) is full of landmines, plantedby the LIB  380/379/541 battalion.

Arakan Army (AA)spokesperson U Khaing Thukha in an interview on 18 July urgedthe  people not to travel to the military controlled areas. Moreover,he also asked them to avoid those places, the battles had taken place, as theremay be a number of landmines.

Rakhine EthnicCongress (REC) recently reported that at least seven people were killed and 20others injured in landmine explosions across Rakhine State from January to July2022. It also added that more than 40 people died and over 80 injured inlandmine explosions between 2018 and 2021, when the fighting had gone intense.