A village administrator from a village in Kyauktaw Township was injured after he stepped on a landmine on the morning of 11 June.

“A few days ago, there had been clashes surrounding Pauk Taw Byin village. After the clashes, our informer said that members of the AA were staying with villagers in nearby villages,” Colonel Win Zaw Oo said.

A community based basic sewing training course is being presented to 20 women from Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu communities in Maungdaw Township.

Some refugees in the monastery are worried that they may face the same fate as the seven villagers who died while being interned in Kyauktan village in Rathedaung Township.

Some Muslims from Bangladesh refugee camps wanted to return home but they were threatened by the ARSA and they did not know which documents to fill out for the repatriation process.

The matriculation examination pass rate in Arakan State is the highest it’s been since 2017, according to the figures released by Arakan State Education Office.

Forty-six ward/village administrators from Kyauktaw Township resigned for reasons of personal safety because the Tatmadaw detained their peers for questioning.

Ko Min Thein Zan urged to solve the problems in Arakan State by negotiating between both sides rather than settling discords with bullets and bombs.

U Maung Win Kyine, the headmaster of the school, said that students were afraid of going to school because of clashes that broke out near their village since June 6.

 An unexploded artillery shell embedded in the ground in the monastery compound in Htaung Laung Pun village, Ponnagyun Township, made local villagers anxious about the potential danger of the ordinance detonating.

The regional government could not construct shelters for IDPs yet because of armed conflicts in Northern Arakan State, this has created mounting concern for their living in the coming rainy season.

A 40-year old man was killed and four others injured during clashes in Mrauk-U and Ponnagyun Townships, northern Arakan State, on June 5.

To step up security for No. (1) Sittwe Police Station, the police force notified shop owners of more than 70 shops that surround the police station from all four sides to move out by 15 June.

The accidental explosion of a bomb that occurred near the Taung Pyo (Right) bridge, killed police and left three others injured, an official from No. (1) Border Guard Force said.

Schools cannot be reopened for the new academic year in Rathedaung Township due to continued fighting between Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army in the region, Township Education Officer U Kyaw Mya said.

An artillery shell exploded in Nyaung Bin Hla village in Mrauk-U Township on 3 June when a man found it and hit it with his knife, one man was killed and three other people injured.

The curfew order in the five townships of northern Arakan State has been extended for the next two months, according to township administrators and local residents.

Daw Hnin Win Yi, 41, was first taken to the village hospital, but was transferred to Sittwe hospital later after she was sent to Mrauk-U hospital because of the severity of her injuries.

A monastery in Minbya Township’s Sabahtar village where villagers were hiding was hit by mortar shells on June 3 at about 3p.m, killing four villagers and injuring nine others including a young monk, U Myo Kyaw Aung, administrator of the village told the DMG.