Casualties mount across three states in onslaught of shelling, bombing by Myanmar junta

The regime forces’ indiscriminate air and artillery attacks caused injuries, deaths, and damage to civilian targets in three states in the first two weeks of February, according to local rights groups and anti-junta armed groups. 

Troops in southern Shan State’s Pekhon and Nyaungshwe townships have been shelling the eastern shore of the Moebye Reservoir with heavy artillery since the beginning of the year, local rights advocacy groups said. 

In Nyaungshwe Township, at least five people including a child were killed and at least a dozen injured as artillery shells hit several villages on the shore.