Junta’s airstrike kills young man in Taungup

Kant Kaw Ni Ni, Narinjara News, 18 June 2024

A young resident of Taungup town in south Arakan State was killed by shrapnel from an airstrike conducted by the junta forces on the night of 15 June.

The victim is identified as  Aung Hlaing Win (also known as Maung Lone Chey, 15) hailed from Ywar Thit Kay village under  Wet Kyaik village-tract.

On the fateful night, the junta soldiers  carried out airstrikes on the villages surrounding Taungup town and  Aung Hlaing Win sustained serious injuries to his abdomen. He was urgently shifted to Taungup hospital, but succumbed to injuries the next morning.

On 15 June, the Arakha Army (AA) launched an offensive against the military camp at Tein Chaung, behind Taungup University during the night hours.

Next morning, intense fighting broke out between the junta soldiers and AA fighters near Mee Chaung Htoe village on the Taungup-Ma-Ei road, following which the soldiers conducted a series of airstrikes over the area.