Lashio

The incident happened at a car parking near a park, which is located in front of a pagoda, in Lashio town of northern Shan state at around 11:45 a.m. local time (0515 GMT), the report said on Thursday.

The second occurred when Myanmar’s rebel groups which have been at war with that country’s military junta made unprecedented advances and by August 3 captured the nation’s northeast military command headquarters at Lashio.

Some villagers grow seasonal crops and corn to sell to China via Lashio.

Yaba pills, which contain methamphetamine, in Lashio last year.

Citing a lack of trust, three of the alliance’s members—the TNLA, AA and MNDAA—rejected the government’s proposed venue options—Naypyitaw, Yangon, Myitkyina or Lashio.

Currently, Mandalay is connected to Muse via Lashio by the national highway.

From January to October this year, 12 people were killed by landmines, including five under-18s, according to the Lashio-based Shwe Phee Myay News Journal.

The area around Lashio is criss-crossed by a patchwork of ethnic rebel groups fighting the military for more autonomy and control over land and resources.

The Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, said its troops were providing security on the Mandalay-Lashio-Muse Union Highway when they came under attack on Nov. 13-14 in both the north and south of Kutkai Township.

Following a tip-off, military personnel based in Kyaukme and local police inspected a truck en route from Lashio to Mandalay at the Kyaukme tollgate and found it to be carrying 164,500 detonators.

Lashio is home to communities of Shan, Palaung, Wa, Kokang, Kachin and Burmese.

Lashio is in Myanmar’s restive Shan State, where several ethnic insurgent groups are fighting the Myanmar military.

Villagers locate the body of ethnic Kachin woman Mar Lut, 60, on Nov. 18, a day after she was shot dead by members of an EAO in northern Shan State’s Lashio Township.