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More than 200 commuters were trapped on a highway in Shan State’s Kutkai Township on Monday by fighting between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw). Fighting erupted in the area on Sunday and continued Monday morning, according to local sources.
The fighting is located near Maw Ham and Tar Moe Nye villages, Major Tar Aike Kyaw, a spokesperson for the TNLA, told The Irrawaddy on Monday.
A roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday killed at least 35 people travelling on a bus, including children, and injured 27, officials said.
Security has been deteriorating across Afghanistan this year, with the Taliban and Islamic State fighters mounting near-daily attacks on Afghan forces, government employees and civilians.
A series of battles took place between KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and BA’s 427th Light Infantry Regiment near the old Nam Pati village in Kutkai township on April 30 at 5:50 am and later again at 4 pm.
On April 29, KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and about 50 soldiers from BA’s 427th LIR engaged at the old Nam Pati village at around 12:25 pm. On the same day, another battle fought between KIA’s 9th Battalion troops and about 50 soldiers from BA’s 10th Light Infantry Battalion troops at Kawng Mu around 2 pm.
At least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh’s office, the government said in a statement on Monday.
Saleh, a running mate of Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, was slightly injured in the attack.
At least four Maoists were gunned down in a fierce encounter with the security personnel in Bihar’s Aurangabad district on Thursday evening.
The gun-battle between security forces and Maoists, owing allegiance to the CPI (Maoist), began on Thursday afternoon in which more than 500 rounds of firing took place from both the sides.