Artillery shell kills one in northern Shan State during regime counteroffensive in Kyaukme

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) stated on Sunday that one civilian was killed by an artillery strike on Nawngpain village of Kyaukme Township, northern Shan State, on Saturday. Kyaukme, located 68 miles (109 km) southwest of the regional capital Lashio, came under TNLA control on Aug. 5. 

“I think the regime’s counteroffensive to retake Kyaukme will rely heavily on artillery, drones and airstrikes just as it did in Nawnghkio,” Zin Yaw, a Myanmar Army defector who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) after the 2021 coup, told DVB. The regime reclaimed Nawnghkio from the TNLA, located 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Kyaukme, on July 16.