C T Online Desk: Nearly 100 residents of Kale Township in the Sagaing Region have been killed by the Myanmar regime troops within the last two months, with the majority being women and children, according to the Kale People’s Strike Committee.
The committee said the junta forces killed at least 97 people from February 1 to April 25 in Kale, a strategic township bordering Chin State where the junta has suffered heavy troop losses to the resistance.
Data collected by the committee shows 60% of those killed were women, 20% were children and 20% were men.
Victims were mostly killed by artillery and drone strikes as regime military columns advance into northern and western parts of the township, the committee said. It said actual civilian casualty figures on the ground may be higher than those reflected in the data.
A committee member told The Irrawaddy that the civilian death toll from the onslaught of shelling and bombing in Kale is rising daily.
On Wednesday, three children and an elderly man were killed when a junta column advancing in northern Kale Township shelled their village of Pyin Taw Oo, according to residents. A woman in the village also died of injuries sustained in the same attack.
