Narinjara News, Oct 17,2022

The Arakan Army attacked twovehicles of military council’s Border Guard Police with RPG on Saturday night burning and damaging bothvehicles south of Maungdaw Township in Rakhine State.

It incident occurred near Sar-ngan-chaungbridge on the border of Rathedaung and Maungdaw townships.

The vehicles were fired nearSar-ngan-chaung bridge between Inn-din and Koe-tan-kauk villages at about 6pm.The place has seen similar attacks in the past.

AA fired RPG at two military council’svehicles. Both were hit and burned killing 4 border police, according to AA source.

One vehicle was carrying a Koe-tan-kaukpolice major who was on his return trip from na-kha-kha ( military base)  in Inn-din to Koe-tan-kauk station when they werehit and burned. There could be many casualties, the villager said.

“It is not easy for thevillagers to know the casualty. But, as both were hit, the number can be high,”he said.

Other locals said they sawthe two military council vehicles and all on board the vehicles could be dead,”he said.

Following the attack, theborder guard stations from Inn-din na-kha-khaand Koe-tan-kauk fired continuously with heavy guns targeting the site ofincident and nearby places as usual, local residents said.

Narinjara could not providethe number of casualties as it was not able to reach neither the AA spokespersonnor the military council side.