A junta army captain was arrested when the car he and four other junta soldiers were travelling in was attacked by the Ye Guerrilla Force (YGF) in Mon State on 4 February.

The attack took place between the villages of Kaninkamawt and Aungtharyar in Lamaing Township at about 4:00 p.m.

The YGF had set up a roadblock between Kaninkamawt and Aungtharyar Villages on the Asia Highway between the cities of Ye and Mawlamyine. When they tried to stop a car carrying five junta soldiers in civilian clothes the junta soldiers started firing their weapons and tried to drive away.

The two groups fought for about 30 minutes before the car plunged into a ditch and the junta soldiers ran away.

Four of them escaped, but one, who confessed to being a junta army captain, was captured by the YGF and arrested.

“All five of them were soldiers, they shot at us with their weapons. The one we arrested confessed to being a captain, but at the moment we have no more information. The other four [soldiers] escaped,” said Saw Khit Thit, a YGF public relations officer.

Mizzima has been unable to independently confirm if the arrested man is an army captain.

According to Saw Khit Thit the junta’s 317th infantry battalion based in Lamaing Township fired three rounds of artillery into the area and sent in soldiers to try and rescue their comrade, so the YGF set the soldier’s car on fire and retreated.

The YGF then posted a video of the burning car on its social media page.

Previously, on 3 February, the YGF reportedly destroyed a Mytel tower and related equipment in Sakhangyi Village in Mon State’s Thanbyuzayat Township.