A villager told Mizzima that three huts and two houses in Pan Pin Taw village in Natogyi township, Mandalay region were set on fire by junta troops.

Two plainclothes men and a man in a military uniform threw petrol bottles and set fire to huts and houses at around 7pm on January 10.

“Of the burnt houses, Maung Toe's house, which had been burnt down before, was burnt into ashes. The villagers were fleeing because they were afraid of the Myanmar army. Lest they (villagers) come back, it seems that junta troop set fire to houses," he said.

On December 28, the Myanmar Army set fire to Maung Toe's house, claiming that it was home where PDF fighters are living. On the same day, as the Myanmar Army searched for local people who mainly support to the National League for Democracy with the list and could not find them, 12 of their homes were sealed off.