Fighters from a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group have seized control of a port town after more than two months of intense clashes with junta troops, they said.
An armed ethnic minority group in Myanmar has said it captured a town and several junta outposts near the border with Bangladesh and India, in the latest setback for the embattled military.
Myanmar's military and an alliance of armed ethnic minority groups announced a ceasefire on Friday after months of conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives and posed the biggest threat to the junta since it seized power in 2021.
At least 151 Myanmarese soldiers fled to Mizoram's Lawngtlai district after their camps in the neighbouring country were overrun by an armed ethnic group, an Assam Rifles officer said on Saturday.
Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing called on ethnic armed groups battling the junta across the country to find a political solution as it reels from coordinated offensives near the borders with China, India and Thailand. Myanmar observers have told news agencies that these recent spate of attacks is the biggest threat to junta rule after it usurped the democratic government led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu-Kyi in 2021.