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More than 400 junta soldiers torched homes in at least eight villages in western Bago Region’s Minhla Township as they advanced through the area on Wednesday, local resistance groups said.

Junta troops burned civilian homes in Kywe Ma Kaing and San Boke villages according to Moe Htet, an info officer for the Minhla Township People’s Defence Team, two villages sit between the Bago Yoma foothills & the Yangon–Pyay road, east of Minhla town.

"Junta troops began setting fire to Kywe Ma Kaing village around 12:10 pm, then they started burning homes in San Boke village around 7 pm day before, however, since initial blaze didn’t destroy everything, they returned & ignited fires again at around 9am on June 25," Moe Htet told Myanmar Now.Resistance groups in Minhla say the advancing junta column is made up primarily of troops from Brigade 66.