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Two Burmese government military aircraft on Wednesday dropped bombs onto a joint force of Shan State Army-South (SSA-South) and Shan State Army-North (SSA-North), according to Major Sai Lao Hseng, the spokesman of the SSA-S. The information could not be confirmed by outside sources.
He said the bombing took place when government troops on Wansai Hill were under attack by SSA troops near Wankaipha village in Mong Yai Township in northeastern Shan State.
At least 20 people have been killed and 113 others injured in three bomb blasts that rocked Mumbai on Wednesday evening in the crowded Dadar, Opera House and Zaveri Bazar areas. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan confirmed that the deaths reported include casualties from all the three locations hit by the blasts.
Union Home Ministry confirmed that the blasts are terror strikes and added that Improvised Explosive Devices were used at all the three locations.
A new war front was opened between Burmese Army troops and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldiers on Wednesday afternoon, at 4:30 p.m. local time in Puta-O district in Kachin State, Northern Burma, said KIA officials.
There is heavy fighting between Burmese troops under the Puta-O Military Strategy Command-3 and KIA soldiers of Battalion 7 under Brigade 1, said a KIA officer in Laiza headquarters in eastern Kachin State.
A key militant suspect wanted for several deadly attacks in the South, including the murder of former Bannang Sata police chief Sompien Eksomya, was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Yala yesterday.
Ma-ae Aphibalbae, 34, was among four militants found dead after a 15-minute shootout with a joint police-military ranger force at a house in Ban Cha Ro Pae in Than To district.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Friday claimed their first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden`s death as 80 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre.
Around 140 people were wounded, 40 of them fighting for their lives, in the deadliest attack this year.
Friday`s explosions detonated in Shabqadar as newly trained paramilitary cadets, dressed in civilian clothes, were getting into buses for a 10-day leave, police said.
“This was the first revenge for Osama`s martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said by telephone from an undisclosed location.