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Shantouzhai village in Yunnan province in southwestern China was accidentally bombed by a MiG-29 fighter of the Myanmar Air Force in the conflict between government forces and Kokang rebels near the Chinese border, China’s Global Times reported on March 8. Nobody was injured.
A villager told the paper, “We knew that the aircraft were flying over to bomb the National Democratic Alliance Army, and nearly all of us went out from our houses to watch the fighting.”
“Unexpectedly, we saw an unidentified object dropped from an aircraft flying closer to the village and everybody began to run.” The bomb eventually hit into the house of a local resident named Luo. Nobody was hurt but the villagers have called on the Myanmar government to compensate for the damage.
A source told the Global Times that MiG-29 fighters and helicopters were mobilized by the government to attack the National Democratic Alliance Army near the Chinese border on Mar. 8 and the bomb was likely dropped accidentally by the pilot. The source said that the airspace in the Kokang region was too narrow for the pilot to carry out the attack precisely.
Another village called Qinshuihe near the border was also shelled accidentally by the artillery of the Myanmar Army on the same day.
An entrepreneur surnamed Pan working in Mengding county where both villages are located said they have been able to hear the sounds of artillery every night since last week.
Hong Lei, spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, said the Chinese government has already expressed its serious concern to the Myanmar side, demanding they get to the bottom of what happened and take effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again during a press conference held on March 3.
Thousands of refugees from Myanmar have fled across the border into Yunnan to escape the fighting in Myanmar’s Kokang region.
A villager told the paper, “We knew that the aircraft were flying over to bomb the National Democratic Alliance Army, and nearly all of us went out from our houses to watch the fighting.”
“Unexpectedly, we saw an unidentified object dropped from an aircraft flying closer to the village and everybody began to run.” The bomb eventually hit into the house of a local resident named Luo. Nobody was hurt but the villagers have called on the Myanmar government to compensate for the damage.
A source told the Global Times that MiG-29 fighters and helicopters were mobilized by the government to attack the National Democratic Alliance Army near the Chinese border on Mar. 8 and the bomb was likely dropped accidentally by the pilot. The source said that the airspace in the Kokang region was too narrow for the pilot to carry out the attack precisely.
Another village called Qinshuihe near the border was also shelled accidentally by the artillery of the Myanmar Army on the same day.
An entrepreneur surnamed Pan working in Mengding county where both villages are located said they have been able to hear the sounds of artillery every night since last week.
Hong Lei, spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, said the Chinese government has already expressed its serious concern to the Myanmar side, demanding they get to the bottom of what happened and take effective measures to prevent similar incidents from happening again during a press conference held on March 3.
Thousands of refugees from Myanmar have fled across the border into Yunnan to escape the fighting in Myanmar’s Kokang region.
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