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SAGAING DIVISION- According to residents, some more dead bodies resurfaced on Thursday (September 21) at the place where the Military Warship sank.
“Seven bodies resurfaced yesterday, four bodies of soldiers and three female bodies. No one dared to retrieve them as they were floated in the middle of the river. Some bodies might be still trapped in the sunken ship,” said a local.
On September 19, around 11:00 a.m., a warship carrying Jade, weapons, and non-CDM employees from Hkamti Town hit the cape of Shelnut Mountain and sank before it could dock at Minking Township. Locals estimated that there were nearly a hundred people, including junta council soldiers, might have died in the incident.
The junta council reported on September 20 that only three company employees, six civilians and three soldiers (a total of 12) went missing.
Until the evening of September 20, thirteen bodies had been recovered, and with the seven bodies that resurfaced on September 21, a total of 20 people had actually been found, residents said.
The Union Liberation Force (ULF) group reported that the warships that were docked (at Minking) left without retrieving (or conducting searches near) the sunken ship and stopped overnight in Kani Township on September 20.