Six people including a school principal and his wife, were killed in a junta fighter jet airstrike on Waibula Village in Chin State’s Falam Township on the morning of 10 April.

Salai Cung Ngai, a Chin Nation Defense Force (CNDF) spokesperson said to Mizzima: "They dropped six bombs in three airstrikes. Two hit Waibula village.”

He added that other people had been injured and there might be further deaths amongst the injured.

He also said that the CNDF believe the airstrike was in retaliation for an earlier attack, at 5:00 a.m. the same day, on the Vhar Village junta army camp, also in Falam Township, by the CNDF and other defence forces

Salai Cung Ngai said: “We attacked the military camp in a raid and controlled it after a one-and-a-half-hour fight. One person from our side died and at least 16 junta soldiers were killed. We also captured [junta] soldiers with their weapons and ammunition and the camp was burned down. At least 10 junta soldiers were captured alive.”

The military camp in Vhar Village is an outpost of Infantry Battalion 268 based in Falam Township.