Some 20,000 civilians have fled a township in central Myanmar’s Magway region amid three days of heavy fighting between rebels and junta troops that destroyed around one-third of area homes, residents said Monday.
The intense combat in the heartland township of Pwintbyu is the latest sign that the junta is losing ground as the civil war enters its fourth full year.
People displaced from Pwintbyu told RFA Burmese that fighting worsened on Saturday, prompting them to flee from 10 villages in the township, which lies next to the Rakhine mountain range.
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