A local man from Wethmine village in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township is reportedly receiving medical treatment after he was severely injured in a landmine blast on Friday afternoon.

Myanmar’s junta had detained at least 20 people in Sittwe as of June 24, including the administrator of Anauk Sanpya ward, after the Arakan Army detained two Myanmar military personnel in the Arakan State capital.

The Kayan Youth, a local civil society organisation, has called for help for children displaced by fighting in eastern Myanmar’s Kayah (Karenni) State.

More than 80 percent of basic education students had received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as of June 29, according to the Arakan State Education Office.

Thirty-five people, most of them children, from the Nyaungchaung camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township are suffering from skin problems, according to a camp official.

Five locals from Ponnagyun Township’s Kyaukseik village and its vicinity have been detained for more than two years, but a ruling in their case has yet to be delivered by the court. 

The Palay Yadanar monastic education school in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township is in need of financial assistance as the number of students increased by about 200 this year, according to school officials.

Family members say that since their loved ones’ re-arrests last month, they have not been in contact with the two village administrators from Arakan State’s Sittwe Township. 

There has been no electricity in much of Chin State’s Paletwa Township for three days due to a prolonged power outage, according to locals.

Family members have not yet been allowed to see three local administrators in Chin State’s Paletwa since they were detained by the regime in late May and early June.

Fighting between junta troops and the combined forces of ethnic Karen armed organisations and resistance groups raged on Wednesday as the latter tried to seize a strategic junta outpost in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township, and the regime responded with air strikes.

Some local residents in the Arakan State capital Sittwe have complained that the township electricity office has been wrongly charging them for electricity units that they did not use.

The Myanmar military stands accused of killing three people and detaining a total of 37 residents — 24 men and 13 women — from Kadetgyi and Gotinn villages in Launglon Township, Tanintharyi Region, and the whereabouts of the detainees remain unknown, according to locals.

The Arakan Army (AA) said the Myanmar military has arrested 40 residents in Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Ponnagyun and Sittwe townships amid ongoing military tensions with the ethnic armed group.

The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), announced on June 26 that locals in Kyaikto Township, Mon State, should be careful not to travel too close to military convoys.

Myanmar citizens undertaking international travel can apply for electronic Covid-19 vaccination certificates in English, according to the military regime’s Ministry of Health.

The number of people killed or injured by landmines while searching for food in forests has increased in Arakan State, with more and more internally displaced people (IDPs) being forced to forage lately due to food shortages at their displacement camps. 

Thousands of locals in Bago Region’s Kyaukkyi and Mone townships were displaced by fighting on June 26. (Photo: KNU Central)

The Arakan Army (AA) says the Myanmar military has recently detained 32 innocent civilians from Sittwe, Kyauktaw and Ponnagyun townships.