A woman was killed by junta air strikes on villages in the west of Wetlet Township in Sagaing region at 7:30 a.m. on 17 October.

According to local news sources the woman, in her 40s, was killed when junta aircraft bombed the western Wetlet Township villages of Shwepangone, Ywarthargyi, Tada-U, and Yinmataw.

Earlier in the morning of the same day, 17 October, the junta suffered casualties when the Shwepangone Village police station in Wetlet Township was attacked by a coalition of local defence forces.

A Wetlet resident said: “A combined force of people’s defence forces (PDFs) attacked Shwepangone police station early in the morning on 17 October. Some junta soldiers were badly injured and that is why two helicopters from North Western Military Command bombed villages on the western side of Wetlet.”

On the previous day, 16 October, also in the western part of Wetlet Township, junta troops had entered Thitseintgyi Village and burned down more than 30 houses