Fighting has flared up again between the Chin resistance and the Burma Army in Kalay Township, Sagaing Region.
According to resistance fighters, they killed about 50 BA soldiers, who were part of a convoy of 200 soldiers travelling from Kalay to Falam, in clashes between 11 and 13 July.
Three regime soldiers died on 11 July when the Kalay People’s Defence Force (PDF) ambushed them between Yan Gyi Aung and Hakha Lay.
The next day, several groups killed at least five soldiers between Inn Sein Ywa Thit and Si Tha. On the same day, a child was wounded by regime shelling in a paddy field near Inn Sein Ywa Thit.
The army stayed overnight in Si Tha before moving north on 13 July, where it suffered many casualties after attacks by resistance groups. A Kalay PDF officer said 42 soldiers were killed near Thaya Kon that day.
“Ambulances went many times to take the injured and deceased BA soldiers to Kalay town,” he told Khonumthung News.
Ambulances delivered the bodies of the fallen soldiers to the cemetery in Kan Pale and by the evening, the convoy had arrived at Kalay Technical University.
Various battalions from Kalay PDF, the Vakok Chin National Defense Force (CNDF), NA CNDF, Kalay Kabaw Gangaw Chinland Defense Force, Ranger Kalay Defense Force and a local PDF took part in the attacks of the convoy at various routes of its journey.
One Kalay PDF fighter and one Vakok CNDF were killed in battle.
Khonumthung News couldn’t independently confirm causalities on either side.