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Pakistani officials say six Islamic militants were killed ahead of a planned attack on a university in the central Panjub Province.
Counterterrorism police officials said on May 20 that a group of militants was in the district of Dera Ghazi Khan near the city of Multan when police attacked them and engaged in a shoot-out.
The Burma Army helped by Border Guard Force troops (BGF) fought with a Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA)’s splinter group for over two hours in Pyar Pin Village, Kawkareik Township, Karen State at 5am on 11 May.
A BGF major who did not want to be named said that two bombs exploded in the early hours of 11 May, one at 12.45am and the other at 1.55am. At 5.30am the DKBA splinter group, led by Bo Nar Ma, then started firing at the joint Burma Army and BGF forces from a hill near Pyar Pin Village.
Maoists owing allegiance to Revolutionary Communist Centre ( RCC ), splinter group of CPI (Maoist), raided the camp office of a private road construction company located in Belaganj police station area of the district shortly before midnight on Tuesday. The heavily armed Maoists numbering more than a dozen made the company staff captive at gun-point.
A Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) soldier in Kyaukme Township, at the frontline of conflict with the Shan State Army-South in February. (Photo: Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy)
Fighting broke out this week at eight separate locations in northern Shan State, pitting the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) against the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S), with the TNLA reclaiming army bases from SSA-S troops, according to a statement from the former on Thursday. The locations of the hostilities were spread across the adjacent townships of Mongton, Namkham and Kyaukme.
The two ethnic armed groups have been engaged in conflict over territory in northern Shan State since late last year, after the SSA-S signed the so-called nationwide ceasefire agreement with the previous government. The TNLA, which was not allowed to sign the accord, has accused the Burma Army of lending logistical support and protection to the SSA-S—a charge the SSA-S has consistently denied.
Reports are emerging of a series of small scale attacks by Burma Army forces against Kachin Independence Army positions throughout Kachin State, and on the Shan-Kachin State border.
Free Burma Rangers, a frontline humanitarian aid agency, has reported that the attacks have led to “several” civilian casualties including a 60-year-old woman, killed and a 7-year-old girl, badly injured by gunfire.