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- November 07, 2023
Narinjara News, 1 November 2022
Three members of a Rakhine family along with their four cows were killed and three houses also got
damaged by the shelling of Junta forces
last night.
The victims have been identified as U Soe Win (45 years old), his wife Daw Than Than Wai (b) Daw Puke (44) and
their school going daughter Ma Phyo
Phyo Wai (13), hailing
from Pisi village under Kyauk Taw township
located at upper Kaladan river.
A person close to the family informed that the sakakha (9) military headquarters fired the shells with 10
heavy weapons and their indiscriminate
shelling hit the northern part of Pisi village.
"Everyone was sleeping at the time. The shells fell near their house. The pieces of shells hit them and three
members died on the spot. Some cattle
were also killed and injured. Their son is working in Malaysia. As the firing started two other next
door families succesfully ran to enter in bomb shelters. But the three-member family was not lucky,” he added.
The father and daughter sustained injuries on their left chests and the mother faced serious injury on her hand.
On 29 October, heavy weapons were engaged for firing by the 539th army battalion based in Kan Souk of Kyauk
Taw locality. The fired shells hit
Sin Ma Kyaw village and it destroyed two houses and also injured a minor student.