TANINTHARYI DIVISION-Residents said that the military council bombed the area around Sawbwar village last Friday morning (March 1) with a helicopter.
Locals said that around 9:30 a.m., MI-2 helicopters bombed the area around Sawbwar village three times.
“The choppers are going to and fro, bombing the area. About 20 or 30 bombs were dropped,” said a man from the Thayetchaung area.
This was the first aerial bombing attack in Thayetchaung Township.
Around 10:30 p.m., the locals reported that they no longer heard the sound of roaming military aircraft. The damage caused by the aerial bombing is not yet known.
Due to the air attack, residents of Sawbwar and Kingshae village and nearby villages are forced to flee.
Earlier in the morning, before the junta’s aerial bombardment, a fierce battle broke out between the military council troops and the revolutionary forces around the village of Yaungnaw, near Sawbwar village.
According to residents, the bombing attack was carried out by the military council when the fighting had calmed down.
In the past month, the East Forest area in Dawei Township was bombed by the military council using K-8W fighter jets and MI-2 helicopters, some homes were destroyed and civilian casualties were reported.