Mizoram: As many as 151 Myanmar soldiers fled to Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district after their camps in the neighbouring country were overrun by an armed ethnic group, news agency PTI reported citing an Assam Rifles officer said on Saturday.
The Myanmarese Army personnel, also known as the ‘Tatmadaw’, fled with their arms and approached the Assam Rifles at Tuisentlang in Lawngtlai district on Friday after their camps near the international border were overrun by the Arakan Army fighters.
The officer added that there had been intense gunfights between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army fighters for the past few days in areas close to the Indian border.
He said that some of the Myanmar Army personnel, who entered Mizoram on Friday, were critically injured and first aids were administered to them by the Assam Rifles. The officer said the Myanmar soldiers are now in the safe custody of Assam Rifles at Parva in Lawngtlai district near the Myanmar border.
The Myanmar soldiers will be sent back to their country in some days as talks are going on between the ministry of external affairs (MEA) and the Myanmar military government, the officer said.
