Artillery explosion kills a child and injures two residents in Kaw Ka Rate
June 9, 2023
HURFOM: The military junta launched an artillery attack on Yaw Tan Shay village, Kaw Ka Rate Township, in Karen State in the morning of June 7, 2023.
There had been no resistance or attack on the military by resistance forces.
The attack killed a 12-year-old child and injured a 5-year-old child and his/her mother.
The Hline Wa Artillery Battalion based in Kaw Ka Rate was responsible for launching the 120 mm artillery attack.
“The artillery shells have dropped in the village nearly every day. Most villagers have left fearing these attacks,” said a Yaw Tan Shay villager.
On June 6, the junta launched an air assault on San Pha Lan village, Ku Don village track, in Kaw Ka Rate Township and destroyed a school, four houses and a plantation.
According to the Karen National Union, the military junta has launched 243 artillery attacks and 44 air assaults in May, 2023, all of which have targeted civilians and their villages,
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