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Projectile event in Rakhine, Mrauk-U area, Myanmar on Mon 3rd February 2020

3rd February 2020

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On 3 February 2020, in Kyauktaw Town, in Kyauktaw Township, in Rakhine State, artillery shells which were supposedly fired by a column of 230 Myanmar military soldiers under division 55 stationed at Maha Kangyishin Pagoda landed in a house in Paik Thei ward and killed a mother and injured three men. The military claimed that artillery fire was in retaliation against the AA's attack. However, AA claimed that it was one sided attack by the military on the civilians.

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Rakhine ( Mrauk-U area )

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