AFP

Sunday saw intense fighting in Momauk township in the northern Kachin state between the Kachin Independence Army, an ethnic armed group, and the Myanmar military.

"They tried to get into our area, but our troops tried to block them on the road," KIA spokesman Colonel Naw Bu told AFP, adding clashes had broken out from 8 pm the previous night and that the Myanmar army had deployed airstrikes against them.

"The Myanmar Army used artillery and shells at the area where they believed KIA hide in the jungle. Then, KIA also shot them back."

He was unable to confirm how many Myanmar soldiers were killed when KIA ambushed two army trucks.

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