By Nway / MPA 

After a mine attack on junta troops along the Pathein-Monywa Road, they arrested 23 civilians, according to reports.

On September 11, around 4:00 PM, the junta troops, upon facing a mine attack, forcibly took 23 civilians from Makyee Tahtaung Village and along the Pathein-Monywa Road in Salingyi Township to the No. 28 Police Battalion, according to Yinmarbin Township’s Circuit 2 People’s Defense Team. 

“After we launched the mine attack, they arrested civilians. Thirteen people from Makyee Tahtaung Village, who were returning from harvesting peanuts near Budalin, and ten more from along the road were detained. Both men and women were taken,” Bo Sekkyar, Deputy Commander of the Circuit 2 People’s Defense Team in Yinmarbin Township, told MPA.

The detainees were being interrogated and reportedly beaten at the No. 28 Police Battalion as of 2:00 PM on September 13, with no sign of their release.

Around 2:30 PM on September 11, local PDF forces launched a mine attack, targeting a junta convoy of around 100 troops providing security for trucks transporting sulfuric acid containers for Wanbao and Yanansee companies in Salingyi Township, resulting in the death of a junta officer and injuries to five soldiers, according to the report of Circuit 2 People’s Defense Team in Yinmarbin Township. 

Three of five wounded soldiers were reported to be critically injured.