Myanmar junta artillery fire killed four residents of Kyauktaga Township in Bago Region, on 24 June, according to the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA).

Junta Light Infantry Battalion 264 based in Peinzalote Town, in Nyaunglaebin Township, also in Bago Region, fired at least 10 rounds of artillery into villages in Kyauktaga Township, starting at about 4:30 p.m. on 24 June.

"Two youths in Ngapheinn Village and two women in Thamininnkone Village were killed due to the military council’s artillery shells”, said a source from the KNLA.

The two dead youths, Saw Thaga Doe, aged 30, and Saw Mudi, aged 30, died when an artillery shell landed on the football pitch where they were playing football, in Ngapheinn Village in Kyauktaga Township, at about 5:00 p.m. Five others who were playing football with them were also injured by the artillery shell.

At about 5:15 p.m. an artillery shell landed in the compound of a house in Thamininnkone Village, in Kyauktaga Township. It killed the house owner, Daw Aye Myint, aged 50 and her daughter-in-law, Ma Wai Zin Thwe, aged 30.

There had been no fighting in the areas where the junta fired artillery, according to the KNLA source who said that neither the KNLA nor PDF joint forces were conducting military operations in those areas at the time of the attacks.

Residents of Ngapheinn and Thamininnkone villages are fleeing because of heavy artillery fire.