13 October 2022
The State Administration Council released a statement that the KNLA Brigade (1) and PDF attacked the Kinmonchaung mountain passenger station of Kyaikhtiyo Pagoda in Kyaikhto in Mon State with heavy weapons and small arms this morning, leaving three pilgrims dead and 19 other injured.
In the incident, the pagoda was crowded with public who were making pilgrimage peacefully to the pagoda during the Thadingyut festival, when the combined force of the KNLA Brigade (1) and NUG- and CRPH-proxy terrorists so-called the PDF arrived at the passenger station on a vehicle from the direction of Saung Naing Gyi Village at about 10.25 am and brutally attacked the mountain passenger station with heavy weapons and small arms without any provocation, before retreating to the direction of the village.
During their attack against innocent civilians, three women were killed and 19 others including nine men and 10 women were injured. Security forces provided necessary emergency treatments to the injured and brought them to the People’s Hospital in Kyaikhto. Security forces are chasing the terrorists on the run to take effective action against them, SAC said.
The dead women are from Thingangyun Township in Yangon, a local said.
The combined force of KNLA Brigade (1) and NUG- and CRPH-proxy terrorists so-called the PDF brutally terrorized a non-military target, a religious precinct, where people were making pilgrimage to gain merit and the attack amounts to war crimes under Geneva Convention and international laws. Action will be taken against them under the counter-terrorism law, the penal code and relevant existing laws and the security forces will invoke counter-terrorism action to take effective action against them. Members of the public are urged to report the information about the activities of terrorists to security forces secretly, SAC said in a statement.
