In Myanmar, the military junta has lost more bases and experienced the deaths of 62 troops over the past three days as rebel factions, including the People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), intensified their attacks on regime targets nationwide.
Reports of incidents have emerged from Sagaing, Magwe, and Mandalay regions, as well as Kachin and Karen states, The Irrawaddy reports citing PDFs and EAOs.
The junta forces abandoned their efforts to reclaim Shwe Pyi Aye town in Homalin Township, Sagaing Region, on Saturday, following a successful 10-day defense mounted by PDF forces, as stated by the Homalin PDF group.
Since January 26, approximately 400 regime forces alongside the allied Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA) have sought to recapture the town, which was seized by PDF forces on November 22 of the previous year.
During the confrontations, PDF forces discovered 15 buried bodies of regime troops in vacated junta positions. Additionally, Homalin PDF reported that 40 regime forces sustained injuries.
PDF battalion dropped over 20 drone bombs on a military unit of 100 troops in Magwe Region on Saturday leaving two regime forces dead and six others injured, said the PDF group.
The PDF carried out a drone strike on the pro-junta village of Zee Taw. Additionally, they utilized grenades and 40-mm explosives to attack regime forces stationed at a monastery in Yesagyo town. Moreover, they employed a cluster of 10 land mines to ambush a military truck between two villages in Natogyi Township, Mandalay Region, on Saturday.
At least 15 regime forces were killed in Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region last Friday when 10 PDF groups raided a junta base of 20 troops in San Pya Village, said Natogyi Regional PDF, which joined the raid.
Amid the massive infighting, 103 members of Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) have crossed the border at Tumbru and taken shelter in Bangladesh, said Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).