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| Sagaing Division, which is fleeing because the military council is on the move. 2023 When we met on September 30th. |
Sagaing Division Dipaying Township, On the evening of October 19th, when the military council army column was returning from the village of Sohobwe, the locals who entered the village and cleared the houses that had been set on fire were hit by landmines. One person died due to being shot with a large weapon. Residents said eight people were injured.
The victim, a man in his 40s, died on the morning of October 20 while receiving medical treatment for injuries caused by heavy weapons and landmines.
The injured were men between the ages of 20 and 40. A local resident said that the column left the village after two landmines exploded while the column was cleaning up two homes that had been set on fire.
"After they left, they entered the village and cleared the burnt houses. Two landmines planted by the soldiers there broke, and they fired heavy weapons at the broken place. Nine people were injured by both the mine and the heavy weapon. One of them died this morning."
He said that this column was the one that went out on foot from Ye Oo town to Di Paying town, and raided the villages along the village road along the road of the village and carried out a series of raids and shooting with heavy weapons.
In this regard, RFA contacted U Sai Naing Naing Kyaw, Minister of Ethnic Affairs, who is authorized to speak in Sagaing Division of the Military Council, by telephone, but he did not receive an answer.
According to the lists compiled by RFA, eight civilians were killed in the two weeks from October 1st to the 17th due to the military's airstrikes and artillery fire. 41 were injured.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in a statement on October 2 that there have been more than eight hundred thousand (813,500) people who have fled their homes in Sagaing due to the conflicts after the coup.
