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Fresh fighting in northern Shan State displaces thousands. Clashes broke out again in Mongmit, the site of arson attacks and battles between the military and forces led by the Kachin Independence Army that reduced parts of the town to rubble earlier this year.

Thousands were forced to flee their homes outside the town of Mongmit, northern Shan State fighting between the junta and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) resumed there on Tuesday.

Local civilians said the battle broke out at around 6pm near Man Hpwei and Lel Gyi villages, approximately four miles east of Mongmit Township’s urban centre, and that the two sides fought fiercely for around an hour.

“The people fled from the villages. Fearing that there would be another battle in the town, half the town’s population fled again. The military forces are still there, so people don’t dare stay in the town," a local civilian said.

On January 18 of this year, the Kachin Independence Army ( KIA) and its allies launched attacks on junta forces in Mongmit Township, which is adjacent to Mabein, Manton, Mongngawt, and Namhsan townships in northern Shan State and adjacent to. . .

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