Police car attacked in Aunglan, village development director and police corporal killed, deputy district police chief and 4 others injured

It has been learned that in Aunglan Township, Magway Region, a township director from the Department of Rural Development in Shinponwe Township and a police corporal were killed, and four others, including the acting deputy district police chief of Aunglan District, police force members, and some civilians, were injured due to a guerrilla attack by revolutionary allied forces. Around 1:20 PM on July 1, revolutionary troops intercepted and attacked a convoy of police vehicles with small arms near Thayargon Village, about six miles north of the Aunglan City Police Station, on the Pyu-Magway Road. According to police sources, the ambush led to an exchange of fire between both sides, and Police Corporal Kyaw Lwin, the driver of the Aunglan District Police Chief's vehicle within the convoy, was shot in the head and died at the scene. Furthermore, it was learned that Acting Deputy District Police Chief Win Hlaing and Police Officer Aung Thanzaw (shot in the right buttock) were injured and have been sent to Aunglan Township People's Hospital. During the shooting, U Kyaw Zeyya, the 51-year-old director of the Department of Rural Development in Shinponwe Township, who was caught between the police convoy, also died from bullet wounds to his right temple and leg. Civilians U Myint Naing and his wife Daw Thet Thet Mar, who were traveling in his vehicle, also sustained bullet injuries. Similarly, in Aunglan Township, around 5 AM on June 2, revolutionary allied forces, including the No. 2 Battalion of the Thayet District, launched an attack on the Natmauk Gate camp of the SAC army in Shwepantaw village as part of "Operation 1404," and intense fighting reportedly lasted for over an hour. Photo caption: Vehicle attack involving officers near Satewa village, Taungdwingyi, Magway on June 17 (archive photo)