The artillery shellingof the Military Council into Shwe Pyi and Shwe Pyi Thit villages in KyauktawTownship, Rakhine State, injured 7 people including two7-year-old children and an elderly person.

At around 1:00 PM on November 11,Kyauktaw-based No. 9 Operation Command Headquarters fired artillery aimed atresidential areas. One artillery shell landed in Shwe PyiVillage, and 2 other shells hit a residential house in Shwe Pyi Thit Village.

“Artillery rounds hit a house in our village and injured 6people. Now they are lying in pools of blood. A villager was alsoinjured by artillery in Shwe Pyi Village”, a local from Shwe Pyi ThitVillage said.

On the evening of November 10,Military Council troops entered Sin Inn Gyi village and burned 4houses. The next morning, the bodies of 9 people shot dead, including an elderlywoman, werefound in the village.

At present, there is no fightingin Kyauktaw and the locals accuse the Military Council of

deliberately firing artillery atthe public

Those injured by the artilleryshell in Shwe Pyi Thit were U Maung Thein Aung (75), his wife Daw OoMya Phyu (70), his daughter May Gyi (32) and his granddaughter Ma Khaing ZinPhyo (7) and other three villagers.

A shell fell into the neighboringShwe Pye Village and also injured a 7-year-old girl Ma Hla Hla Kywaton her head. In another incident a person from Dpar Yone Village of PonnagyunTownship was killed by an artillery shell, and another seriously injured person diedon the way to the hospital on the morning of November 11.