Yangon: One bomb blast and one firing Myanmar-China border Rescue workers and locals said on Tuesday that two people had died in the town and at least nine were injured.
No group has claimed this yet attack in the museumMyanmar’s main gateway to China, which is home to a number of militia groups seeking to control lucrative casinos and the drug trade.
A local NGO worker, requesting anonymity, said a woman was killed and five people were injured in a bomb attack on a police traffic post on Monday.
Later that night, the police station was attacked “with small arms and heavy weapons”, the activist said, killing another person and injuring four.
A member of a volunteer rescue team who helped take people to hospital confirmed two deaths, but put the number of wounded higher, saying that six people, five of whom were militia members, were wounded in the bombing. , and five others were injured in the police station attack. ,
A separate, drive-by shooting injured two more suspected militia members on Tuesday morning, both NGO workers and rescuers said.
Local media also reported on the attacks.
A police spokesperson in the area could not be reached for comment.
The museum is home to several militia groups controlled by Myanmar army – Which has made an agreement with China not to deploy troops on the border.
The military uses militias as proxies in long-running conflicts with ethnic rebel groups operating in the area, including the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Tang National Liberation Army (TNLA).
TNLA spokesman Major Tar Aik Kyaw told AFP that his group was not involved in the museum attacks.
Violence has escalated across Myanmar since a military coup last year, with the junta taking bloody crackdowns on dissent in addition to long-running conflicts with ethnic groups.
The museum is located along the route of a proposed $8.9 billion high-speed rail link from China’s Yunnan province to the west coast of Myanmar, which is part of Beijing. Belt and Road Initiative,
But the region is loaded with weapons and is a hotbed of meth production in the form of armed insurgents and militias for any potentially unforeseen share.
In 2018, two Chinese nationals were among 19 people killed when ethnic rebels attacked security force posts and a casino near the museum.
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