ASEANEWS HEADLINE-CIVIL WAR | MYANMAR: Kachin fighters seize border guard outpost near Pangwa in Kachin State’s ‘Special Region’

 KIA fighter at the front line in Kachin State, seen in January 2024 (Photo: Myat Phet/Myanmar Now)

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After five days of fighting, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and its allies took over a junta-allied Border Guard Force (BGF) station near Pangwa, an area controlled by the military-allied BGF and home to lucrative hydropower and rare earth mining projects

Members of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and allied forces captured a Border Guard Force (BGF) station near the town of Pangwa (Pang War) in Kachin State’s Chipwe Township on Tuesday afternoon, a KIA spokesperson said.

According to the spokesperson, the KIA-led fighters took over the No. 1002 BGF post, located in Lupi village six miles north of Pangwa and within seven miles of Kachin State’s border with China, after five full days of assaults.

“We successfully seized the Lupi station just about an hour ago,” KIA spokesperson Col. Naw Bu told Myanmar Now on Tuesday.

The fighters also overran several other bases in the surrounding area which had been fighting to defend the Lupi outpost, he said, adding that it was still unconfirmed how many prisoners and weapons they had captured.

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