Junta launches airstrikes on two villages in Thaton District

On December 21, the junta dropped a total of four bombs from jet fighters on two villages in Thaton District, territory of the Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 1, causing damage.

In the afternoon of December 21, a junta jet fighter dropped two 300-pound bombs on Chaungwa Village in the Khaywea Village Tract of Kyaikto Township. The bombs exploded near a cemetery on the village outskirts, damaging a nearby monastery and a motorcycle, according to local sources and Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 1.

Later that evening, junta aircraft dropped two 250-pound bombs on Kyonsein Village in the Hattalaik Village Tract of Hpa-An Township, damaging an orchard.