Min Mon Chan, also known as Ah Ba Lai, age 30, (father – Nai Win), a betel plantation worker who is a native of Han Gan Village in southern Ye Township, stepped on a landmine at the entrance of a plantation on Kyaung Shar Kwin Road yesterday morning and his right foot was shattered as a result according to Ah Lel Sa Khan Village Administrator Nai Tin San, also known as Nai A Yan.
“The patient has been sent to Ye Hospital. It’s not life threatening but he lost his right foot. The plantation workers are afraid to go to the plantations. Other people are going to come and pick the seasonal fruits,” he said to the Mon News Agency.
NMSP soldier was injured by the landmine on October 15 (Photo – Facebook)
“There’s only our ally, the KNU, in this area. It’s the area where our Mon residents work in plantations. We can only believe that the landmines [have been planted by] the KNU. We, the NMSP, haven’t used landmines for a long time now,” the NMSP official from Dawei District said on condition of anonymity.
Ah Lel Sa Khan Village Administration has reported to respective government departments after the KNU physically assaulted three plantation workers with rifle butts and knife blades in Kyaung Shar Kwin on October 8.
The NMSP Dawei District Battalion 2 and the KNU Battalion 10 under Brigade 4 are active in Yebyu Township and four skirmishes broke out between the troops under the KNU and the NMSP in Kyaung Shar Kwin area in 2016.