Nine residents were killed and at least 10 homes reduced to ashes in Sin Inn Gyi Village, Ponnagyun Township, according to villagers.

Arakan State saw 3,866 foreign arrivals from January to October of this year, according to the state’s Directorate of Hotels and Tourism.

Students and minors have been among those recently arrested by the Myanmar military on suspicion amid renewed fighting in Arakan State, said Ko Oo Than Naing, the information officer of the Arakan Students’ Union.

U Tun Kywl, a local businessman in Maei town, was abducted by the military at Mee Chaung Htoe security checkpoint in Taungup, Arakan State, at around 5 p.m. on November 14, according to sources close to the detainee.

The Arakan Army (AA) ambushed a junta vehicle with landmines northeast of Ngat Pyaw Chaung Village in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township on Tuesday morning.

The Arakan Army (AA) attacked junta soldiers deployed at a railway station east of Kuntaung Village, part of Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, at about 7 a.m. on Tuesday, according to locals.

Local people recently displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army (AA) troops in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township are in need of emergency relief supplies. 

Myanmar’s military regime has been using aerial drones to launch attacks in its renewed conflict with the Arakan Army (AA) in Arakan State, at times using the technology to target civilians, according to local residents. 

A middle school principal in Ann Township, Arakan State, was abducted by suspected junta soldiers at about 1 p.m. on November 14, according to local residents.

Fierce fighting broke out on Monday between the military and Arakan Army (AA) on the hills about a mile north of Yanaungpyin Village, part of Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, according to local residents. 

At least 12 civilians were killed and 16 others were injured by artillery strikes, gunfire and a landmine encounter blamed on Myanmar’s military regime over the three-day period from November 10-12 in Arakan State. 

The Arakan State military council has ordered the temporary closure of the Arakan Ar Mahn bus gate in Thandwe, from which routes are run to several destinations in Arakan State, according to employees of the bus portal. 

The Saung Oo Festival will be held for the second time at Ngapali Beach in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township on November 21 as part of a tourism promotion campaign, according to the Arakan State Directorate of Hotels and Tourism. 

The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) has vowed revenge for the Myanmar military regime’s alleged killing of several civilians in Sin Inn Gyi Village, part of Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, this week. 

Two junta fighter jets unleashed rounds of strafing fire near Yan Aung Pyin Village in northern Maungdaw Township at around 1 p.m. on Saturday, according to local residents.

Junta soldiers on Saturday detained four residents in Tankhoe Village, part of Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, local sources close to the matter told DMG. 

Junta troops detained nine civilians from two Buddhist monasteries in Sittwe’s Danyawaddy Ward during nighttime raids on Friday.

Family members are concerned about the fate of two men who went missing after being interrogated by junta soldiers at the military’s Kyee Kan Pyin security checkpoint in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, as the pair has not been seen or heard from in a week. 

A Buddhist monk and two businessmen were arrested by the military in Minbya, Arakan State, at around 10 p.m. on November 11, according to locals.