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TANINTHARYI DIVISION – An elderly woman from Pawutphyar Village in Palaw Township was reportedly injured by the junta council’s heavy artillery shelling.
The 69-year-old woman was taking a walk in the village at around 4 p.m. on Saturday (June 24) when a junta shell landed nearby and the shrapnel hit her in the legs.
“The shell landed in the empty field at the center of the village. She was injured while walking on the street besides that field. The injury is not serious,” said a local man.
Pawutphyar Village has been target of junta shellings for two days straight, with two rounds landing on June 23 and four rounds on June 24, according to the residents.
The village, with around 200 households is directly next to Pawutkone Village where junta forces are stationed and nearly half of the villagers had fled the village because of that.
Following a two-day-long confrontation between local defence forces and junta troops at Pawutkone Village on June 20, junta infantry battalion 285 based in Palaw is said to have been recklessly shelling the vicinity of the village.
Just this month, junta heavy artillery shelling killed a man and a woman from Minhtein Village and the mother of the woman also passed away from shock.