Source: CCTV news client
On the 9th local time, the press group of the Myanmar National Management Council confirmed that at 3:30 a.m. on November 9, a police post at 110 miles of the Yangon-Mandalay highway was attacked, 5 police officers were shot and killed, and the weapons in the post were taken away by the militants.
Police patrolling the Yangon-Mandalay highway
It is understood that in the early morning of the 9th, the sheriff aye maung who was responsible for patrolling this section of the highway and four police officers were resting in the post, and a number of armed militants opened fire on the post, and 5 police officers were shot and killed on the spot.
On the afternoon of the 9th, the Myanmar civilian armed group "Bago Provincial People's Defense Army" announced on social media that it was responsible for the attack and claimed that similar attacks would continue. (Reporter Gao Jiayi)