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Four fighter jets and two helicopters attacked Kachin Independence Army (KIA) positions near the Laiza headquarters capital on Friday. In the morning, military planes struck KIA positions in Lajayang - located less than 10 miles south of Laiza.
At the time of press it was unknown how many casualities resulted from the air strike. The day before government shelling near Lajayang killed one civilian and injured three others at Mankwi, according to Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) sources.
Two Pakistani soldiers have been killed and at least 22 others kidnapped today during an attack by talibans on 3 checkpoints at border of Peshawar. Dawn News Tv referred it.
Official sources have said that armed militants have destroyed two of checkpoints, seized arms and fired a vehicle and have seized another one before fleeing.
28 Taliban fighters and Haqqani network were killed in several military operations in the provinces of the country.
These fighters targeted by Afghan and NATO forces while carrying out terrorist activities in the vicinities of Kandahar, Logar, Ghazni, Sar-i-Pul and Nangarhar provinces.
A Burmese soldier waits for a train in Rangoon with his fellow soldiers as they head to the frontlines of the conflict in Kachin State. (Photo: Reuters)
As war escalates in Burma’s northernmost state, ethnic rebels fighting for their basic rights have killed and injured more than 60 government soldiers in response to an attack on their headquarters, an allied armed group claimed on Monday.
The All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF), an armed group fighting alongside ethnic rebels in northern Kachin State, said government forces suffered the casualties on Friday after launching an offensive in Lajayang region, near the rebels’ headquarters in the town of Laiza, where about 70,000 displaced civilians are staying in refugee camps.
Eight Naxalites were on Friday killed by security forces and nine captured after a gun battle during a raid on the ultra’s training camp in Bande forest area of Kanker district, police said.
“Eight Maoists were killed in a fierce encounter with joint team of the district police force and the Special Task Force in the deeply forested region under Bande police station area,” Kanker’s Superintendent of Police Rahul Bhagat said.
