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Fighting Continues in Lashio as Myanmar Junta Troops Try to Retake NE Command. Clashes broke out between junta troops and the ethnic Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and its allies near the North Eastern Command headquarters in northern Shan State’s capital Lashio on Tuesday as the junta tried to regain control of the base.

The MNDAA and allied resistance groups are poised to take complete control of Lashio after seizing the command HQ on July 25. They are currently trying to take the regime’s remaining military bases in the city.

Clashes broke out between junta troops and the ethnic Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and its allies near the North Eastern Command headquarters in northern Shan State’s capital Lashio on Tuesday as the junta tried to regain control of the base.

The MNDAA and allied resistance groups are poised to take complete control of Lashio after seizing the command HQ on July 25. They are currently trying to take the regime’s remaining military bases in the city.

Fighting continued Tuesday near the North Eastern Command and in Wards 8 and 9 between the junta’s military and the MNDAA, a member of the Brotherhood Alliance of ethnic armies, helped by allied resistance groups. Civilians have been killed by shelling and some who were injured are trapped in their homes, according to residents.
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