At least five officials in Burma were killed during a drone attack in the eastern part of the country. A senior army official was among those killed in the attack.
Myawaddy District Administrator Soe Tint, his aide-de-camp Tun Tun Nyein and a clerk died on the spot when drones dropped two bombs while they were inspecting the damage caused by a drone attack about an hour earlier, they said. The district police office compound is located in downtown Myawaddy, a key trading center in southeastern Kayin state on the border with Thailand.
They added that 10 security and administrative officials were being treated in township and military hospitals in Myawaddy while four others including the head of the district police office were sent to a private hospital in Mae Sot, just across the border in Thailand, which had better medical care. One of the rescue workers said he was informed that a police officer there became the sixth fatality on Monday, but the death could not be confirmed.
The military information office, the Tatmadaw True News Information Team, said in a statement that some members of security forces and civil servants were injured after the Karen National Liberation Army and the People’s Defense Force dropped two bombs from a drone. It did not acknowledge any deaths.Drones have become crucial for the resistance forces, which are outmanned and outgunned by the military that's carried out airstrikes unimpaired.
The statement by Federal Wings claiming responsibility for the attack included a warning to civil servants and their family members to leave government offices and housing and advised Myawaddy residents to stay away from the official offices andfor their own safety. It said that their sole targets were armed security forces working for the military.
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