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SHAN STATE – Junta troops fired rocket launchers towards Mobye Town in southern Shan State and injured a civilian woman, said the locals.
Junta Artillery Division 422, stationed near Mobye Dam, started firing artillery rounds about 7 p.m. on May 19 and one of the rounds fell and exploded in the highly populated No. 3 residential ward of Mobye Town.
A young woman of 21, who happened to be at the front of her house, was injured from the shrapnel.
“According to the sound of blasts, there must be more than one shells that dropped onto the (Mobye) town. The injured young woman was hurt while staying in her own house when the shell dropped near her house. Her legs were wounded,” recounted a local.
The woman injured her leg and was sent to the hospital on the morning of May 20 by Shwe Loikaw humanitarian assistance group. The home of the injured woman was also destroyed due to the shell.
Similarly, on May 18, a villager from Kone Thar Village was also wounded by a mortar shell.
News agencies reported that there were up to 12 civilian deaths in 2023 alone due to the junta’s heavy artillery attacks in Karenni State.
According to the reports from the Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar (ISP – Myanmar), more than 2.5 million civilians had been displaced due to indiscriminate airstrikes and offensive terrorist attacks of junta troops and most of these people are currently taking refuge in IDP camps.