Two people were killed and at least two were injured due to drone bombings by the junta troops on villages in Pyu Township, Bago Division, according to locals.
A 30-year-old local man said that an old man was killed at around 9:00 a.m. on March 9th, when the junta troops bombed Lay Eain Su Village with a drone without fighting.
“There were two bombs in the drone. It fell on the entrance of Lay Eain Su Road, and an old man in his 70s died there. There was no battle happening, so it’s a deliberate attack,” he said.
In addition, the military junta troops bombed again with a drone at around 12:00 noon, and it hit a motorcycle on the road connecting Pyu Town and Mone Town, near Lay Eain Su Village, a 20-year-old local woman said.
“There were three people on the motorcycle. The 60-year-old (U) Shwe Maung died. The other two were seriously injured. They were sent to the hospital. The motorcycle was also damaged. There was Okehpyat Police Station nearby. It was said that the station bombed,” she explained.
Although there has been no fighting in Pyu Township for almost a month, the military junta has daily attacked civilians with heavy weapons and drones, a soldier from the Ānavaka Column, the 3rd Battalion of the People’s Defense Force (under the NUG), said.
“They are afraid that we would seize up their camps; their control area is just around the town; they are deliberately killing people, shooting people who have no weapons with heavy weapons, bombing them with drones, and deliberately making people fear,” he noted.
Heavy weapons fired by the 439th Light Infantry Battalion under the junta previously exploded in the villages of Inkwin Chauk Eain Su and Hpayar Lahar Village on March 6th and 7th, killing six people, including two children under the age of ten.