More than 600 flee Shan State village as Myanmar military fights anti-junta forces

Hundreds of Myanmar families were being uprooted from their homes on Saturday, a community organiser said, piling their belongings onto evacuation convoys to escape fighting between the military and anti-junta fighters.

Myanmar has been consumed by a many-sided civil war since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup, leaving more than 3.5 million people displaced according to United Nations figures.

Heavy combat has been raging since Monday around the village of Saung Nang Khae, near the Moebye Reservoir in southern Shan State’s Pekhon Township, according to locals and evacuation organisers.