The military regime arrested 471 civilians between November 13, 2023, and March 21 during the latest fighting in Arakan State, the Humanitarian and Development Coordination Office (HDCO) said in a report.

Junta soldiers abducted an internally displaced person (IDP) from Simaw Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township, on Saturday morning, according to local residents.

With temperatures rising due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, the residents of Arakan State have become more prone to illnesses such as fever, cough and diarrhoea.

The Maungdaw District administrator and some departmental staff have fled Maungdaw amid fighting between Myanmar’s military regime and the Arakan Army (AA), sources told DMG.

The Arakan Army (AA) seized the military’s Buthidaung-based Light Infantry Battalion No. 564 on the morning of April 5, the ethnic armed group said in a statement.

Nine civilians were killed and 22 others were injured by junta air and artillery attacks in Arakan State over the four days from April 1-4, according to a DMG tally.

Civilians have been forced to flee their homes not only because of the fighting but also due to the junta’s indiscriminate air and artillery strikes on residential areas.

The Arakan Army (AA) is continuing to attack junta positions in Arakan State’s Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, the ethnic armed group said in a statement on Wednesday.

A junta air attack on Kyauktaw town in Arakan State has killed two civilians and injured five others, according to local residents.

Thousands of local people from at least two dozen villages in Ann Township, Arakan State, have been fleeing to safer locations due to rising tensions between the military and Arakan Army (AA) in the area.

The Arakan Army (AA) is continuing to attack junta positions in Arakan State’s Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, the ethnic armed group said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Arakan Army (AA) is launching attacks on military camps and junta outposts including the Tawhein tactical command base near Kazukaing Village, part of Arakan State’s Ann Township,

Fighting between the military regime and the Arakan Army (AA) has been escalating day by day in southern Arakan State, said the AA’s Nova 1 Military Region on Tuesday.

The regime will reportedly organise this year’s Thingyan festival in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu, where military tensions between the junta and Arakan Army (AA) are running high, on a grand scale.

The regime is putting pressure on ward administrators in Manaung Township, Arakan State, to conscript more young men for the Myanmar military.

Civilian casualties inflicted by the Myanmar regime’s air and artillery strikes continue to rise in Arakan State as the regime has been targeting residential areas in retaliation for its recent string of military defeats.

A man was seriously injured after stepping on a landmine near a local police battalion in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township on Saturday.

Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has again vowed to hold new elections without fail despite having lost large swaths of territory to the armed resistance over the past few months.

A total of 65 junta soldiers were killed and 43 injured in six days of fighting with the Arakan Army (AA) from March 24-29 in Arakan State and Magway Region, according to the AA.