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Rocket event in Myanmar on Tue 3rd September 2024

3rd September 2024

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Rocket attack by urban guerrillas targets Myanmar military’s regional headquarters in Mandalay An urban guerrilla resistance group claimed responsibility for firing a barrage of shells that damaged buildings, injured a civilian, and may have injured personnel at a military command office early Tuesday morning in Mandalay.

At around 4am, short-range rockets struck in at least four separate places in Myanmar’s second-largest city, some in Aungmyethazan Township where the Myanmar army’s Central Regional Military Command (RMC) headquarters is located.

According to a man in his 20s living in Aungmyethazan Township, shells also hit a Korean reflexology office in the township, as well as a building opposite the junta-controlled Police Station No. 4 and near the Shwe Kyin toll gate in Patheingyi Township, where the military conducts strict security inspections on passing vehicles.

“The building in front of Police Station No. 4 was hit, with its side wall damaged by the blast. Another shell exploded near. . .
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