Mizzima

A local police station in Dala township, located on the opposite bank of Yangon city, was surrounded by the residents after two women were arrested by the police on 26 March.

About 5,000 people in the suburbs of Yangon gathered near the police station, calling for the release of the two women, one aged 19 and the other 30, but police fired on the protesters with rubber bullets and sound bombs.

A man was reportedly wounded in the thigh by a rubber bullet.

The protesters have put the sandbags across the roads to prevent access by police vehicles.

Despite brutal crackdown of junta forces, people in many areas, such as Kachin, Sagaing and Mandalay, have continued to stage night protests against the military coup.

Some 322 arrested protesters were released from Insein prison in Yangon on 26 March one day before the military held the 76th anniversary Armed Forces Day in Nay Pyi Taw under tight security.