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KACHIN STATE – According to the locals who lived in Tarmahkan, a 13-year-old child was killed by the junta council’s heavy weapon shelling in Sezin, Tarmahkan village, Hpakan.
A Tarmahkan local mentioned that the brutal junta council troops from Tarmahkan Battalion 119 fired heavy weapons toward the territory of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). A heavy weapon shelling was landed in the Natyaekan ward. Due to the shelling, a 13-year-old child was killed.
He continued that “the child was seriously injured. We don’t know the reason why the junta council fired the heavy weapons. There was no ongoing battle. We assumed that they (the junta council troops) fired towards the KIA’s territory. A shell landed in the Natyaekan ward, and a child was injured. The child was dead on his way to Hpakan Hospital.”
A news source mentioned that the 13-year-old child was killed as the shelling pierced into his belly.
A child was killed as the junta council indiscriminately fired heavy weapons toward Sezin and Tarmahkan villages, where they assumed that members of the KIA and PDF would be.
The Junta council’s Tarmahkan military hill camp where the heavy weapon attack is located at the top of Tarmahkan village, near Katai Taung. It was led by the colonel They Paing Htoo.
Similarly, 11 children were killed as the inhumane junta council conducted aerial bombardments over the IDP camp in Laiza and Munglai Hkey, Kachin State, on the night of October 9.