Woman sustains serious leg injury from landmine explosion
July 15, 2024
HURFOM: On July 2nd, 2024, a 55-year-old woman Daw Shwe Shwe Tin, from Too Myaung village, Ye Township, Mon State stepped on a landmine while searching for bamboo shoots in a plantation nearby the 586th Light Infantry Battalion and sustained aserious leg injury. according to local sources.
According to a resident from the village “The woman is receiving treatment at the Ye General Hospital now. She will have to be transported to the “Well Zin” Hospital of the New Mon State Party to have her leg amputated.”
Family members are worried that junta forces will interrogate her when she is enroute to the hospital.
“They have to pass “White Bridge” check-point to reach “Well Zin” Hospital. The check-point’s guards are strict with even local residents so the landmine patient might face more restrictions,” said a local source.
In 2023, there had been 19 cases of landmine explosion and four residents were killed and at least 24 villagers were injured by landmines.
Within the first six months of 2024, landmine explosions killed a woman and injured three other civilians, according to the data collected by HURFOM.
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