Yesterday, 2 churches and 160 buildings at Thantlang town in the Chin state of Myanmar were razed down by fire after Myanmar Junta shot heavy artillery shells.
The two churches were a Presbyterian church and a building housing the Pentecostal Church.
The fire started on Friday and burned through the night. No immediate action has been taken to control the fire.
A government spokesperson denied and said, “nonsense allegations being reported in the country-destroying media” and blamed insurgents for instigating the fighting and setting the fires.
The humanitarian aid agency Save the Children said its offices were in one of the buildings that were “deliberately set ablaze.”
Although, Thantlang had already been evacuated due to previous attacks by the Myanmar military. The town’s 10,000 residents fled to temporary places in nearby villages and others seeking shelter across the border in Mizoram, India.
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