Around 9,000 local people in the townships of Yinmabin and Salingyi in Sagaing Region are reportedly fleeing in an emergency.
Sagaing People’s Support Network announced that 5 military vehicles from the Northwestern Region Military Headquarters in Monywa arrived at Aung Zeya in Yinmabin township at around 9:00 a.m. on March 22, and in the evening, they started to torch the villages in Yinmabin Township.
‘When the column torched, the residents started running away. If it comes, people flee, and if it’s calm, people go back. Now I only heard they started to patrol. I haven’t heard anything yet,” the information officer of the Sagaing People’s Support Network told MPA.
A 150-strong military column was raiding inside Paykone and Htantaw villages in Yinmabin Township at about 11:00 a.m. on March 23, according to some local residents.
”Every time the column came, anyone who they met in the village was killed. So, everyone in the village is fleeing from the column. The village alcoholics also had to flee. Children also are taken care of. So far, it’s still safe,” said a villager in Yinmabin Township.
Due to this military column, local people of 10 villages in the townships of Yinmabin and Salingyi have reportedly fled.