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Three villagers were killed by fighting in Mai Hkawng village, in eastern Kachin State’s Mansi Township, on the afternoon of Wednesday 23 September at 5:30 PM, the Kachin News Group has learned.
Two more civilians were injured by the fighting between government forces and troops from the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). Fighting flared up again in Mansi Township last week and has displaced more than 250 people, aid workers say.
Heavy clashes are under way in Benghazi: witnesses in Libyan town referred it to ANSA.
Clashes are particularly intense near the market.
At least eight people were killed late Thursday in an attack on an army camp in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that local sources blamed on Rwandan Hutu rebels targeted by a Congolese army operation.
Gunmen raided the camp in the village of Rumangabo, about 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of North Kivu’s provincial capital of Goma, about 11 p.m., said Jean Claude Mbabanze, president of the Civil Society of Rutshuru.
Yemen officials say airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the country’s Shiite rebels as well as fighting on the ground between rebels and pro-government fighters in the central city of Taiz have killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens.
At least 17 militants of the Islamic State group (ISIS) were killed in an airstrike southwest of Kirkuk on Thursday evening, an Iraqi security official said.
Coalition airpower destroyed military bases in areas south of Kirkuk, from where ISIS frequently launches attacks against Peshmerga positions inside the city.