The Arakan Army (AA) captured Kyeintali town in Gwa Township in southern Rakhine State in western Myanmar on Wednesday morning.
Kyeintali is just 67 km from Gwa, the southernmost town in Rakhine State bordering Ayeyarwady Region.
The AA launched attacks on a junta checkpoint in Chin Kwin Village outside Kyeintali on Saturday. After two days of fierce assaults on Monday and Tuesday, the town fell on Wednesday morning, a Gwa resident close to the AA told The Irrawaddy.
Some employees of the General Administration Department (GAD) who tried to flee the fighting were shot dead by junta troops, he said.