It is known from the PKDF-Myinmu forces that the cars riding by soldiers were attacked by mines on the Sagaing-Monywa road twice in the same day.
It is said that on 30 January, at around 11:00 am, 3 cars riding by about 10 soldiers that had left to Monywa from Sagaing were attacked by the Local Defense Forces between Wunpyae village and Allakapa village in Myinmu Township.
It is said that similarly, at about 5:10 a.m., the SAC Military’s vehicle with about 20 strength that came to reinforce from Sagaing City to Bomin Gyi village in Myinmu Township that are stationed by the SAC forces was also attacked by landmines between Wunpyae village and Allakapa village and the SAC Military’s Forces were injured.
“We attacked by mine two times today: one time at 5:00 am. and next at 11:00 a.m. At the first time, they came by two private cars: Parado and Mark ll. The Parado car of two were hit by mine. There were about 10 soldiers in each car. In the morning, when they had arrived in the mine field, the cars were attacked by mine. The back of car was hit. So they fired back about 20 shoots and drove away. A civilian car was also hit. We are sorrow for this. The Military dogs (soldiers) can be injured. As far as we can investigate, the public has not been injured. If people use this section of the road, we would like to urge people to be careful and follow the rules we have issued,” said by an official from PKDF-Myinmu.
It is known that in this attack, the SAC Military’s car arrived directly to the mine field, so there were casualties of the soldiers, and the fuel tank of the people’s car that was following nearby the Military car was cracked.
This attack was carried out by joining of the People’s Knight Defense Force Myinmu (PKDF) and People’s Army To Fight Dictatorship, Dog Killers Defense Force-MMU and TAUNGTHA-PDF, D.B.B.F-MMU forces that are allied forces.
PKDF-MMU said that since the new year of 2023, due to the Military has been accelerating, they urge the people to follow the rules issued by the revolutionary forces and that the revolutionary forces are sorrow for people’s cars have been hit.
On the Sagaing-Monywa road, the Local Defense Forces often attack the cars the soldiers are riding in.