Burma-Myanmar: Ambush on Burma army convoy kills 3 soldiers, Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) claims
An ethnic Palaung rebel group claimed to have ambushed a Burma Army convoy in northern Shan State’s Kunlong Township on Wednesday, killing at least three soldiers and destroying two trucks.
“We fired seven RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades]. Two trucks were destroyed and burned. I only could see three bodies of soldiers fell out of the trucks. We do not know the exact number of deaths and injured,” said Mai Aie Kyaw, a spokesperson for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA).
He said a convoy of around 40 army trucks were travelling through Kunlong Township, located about 100 km northeast of Lashio, in order to bring reinforcements and supplies to Burma Army units in areas under control of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).