The AA has seized the Taw Hein Taung tactical command and Me Taung tactical command, both considered crucial for the defence of the Western Command, with hostilities now taking place just 3 miles from Ann Town.

Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Thandwe Township are struggling to survive due to job scarcity, skyrocketing commodity prices and a lack of humanitarian assistance, said an aid worker.

A junta jet fighter dropped bombs on Kyauktaw, killing four civilians and injuring 10 others, according to initial reports.

Arakan State experienced 176 attacks resulting in 101 civilian fatalities - the highest number of airstrikes among 12 regions and states targeted by the junta's aerial bombardments during the period documented.

Junta troops searched her home during the arrest and also seized her passbooks. Su Myat Htet  runs a traditional Arakanese clothing shop in Tamwe.

Eighty-six Myanmar citizens were arrested by Malaysian authorities in the cities of Shah Alam and Seremban on Saturday. A Myanmar woman was reportedly struck and killed by a train while fleeing the detention campaign.

The regime has stepped up aerial bombardments of territories controlled by ethnic armed organisations since declaring the Brotherhood Alliance to be terrorist organisations last month.

The detained villagers, meanwhile, are reportedly being held at a junta base on a hill that also hosts Kantkaw Htataung Pagoda in Ann Town.

Some people have been forced to eat rice porridge due to the increasingly unaffordable local price of the staple grain.

Hundreds of political prisoners from Sittwe Prison in the Arakan State capital were transferred to Pathein Prison in Ayeyarwady Region on Tuesday night.

The AA has so far seized the No. 9 Military Operations Command in Kyauktaw and the No. 15 Military Operations Command in Buthidaung, Arakan State.

The regime also reportedly used 23 trucks to move family members of junta personnel in Ann out of Arakan State on Tuesday morning.

A member of the Arakkha Army's (AA) nascent Department of Law Enforcement and Public Security (DLEPS) was killed and two others were wounded during an ambush by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in Buthidaung Township on Tuesday, according to the AA.

A junta jet bombed the civilian hospital, opened at the village school on a temporary basis, damaging some buildings, according to a local health worker.

Monday's warning urged people to stay fully alert, not to travel unless necessary, and to exercise vigilance while undertaking any travel that may be necessary.

The Arakkha Army (AA) has seized the Myanmar regime's Mt. Mel tactical command base and nearby military camps, about 2 miles from Ann Town where the military's Western Command is located, the ethnic armed group said in a statement on Tuesday.

Two civilians were killed and three others were injured as the regime bombed Khayaymyaing Village, part of Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, two times on Monday evening.

The civilian casualties were reported after a Y-12 military aircraft dropped three bombs on Tanhlwe Ywama's Ward 4 on the night of October 7.

The military has dug trenches along several of the roads to Sittwe, including from Padaleik Village to the Sittwe Regional Operations Command headquarters and from Shwe Mingan Jetty to the entrance to the town.