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On February 3rd 2026, at around 10 am, two 60 mm shells believed to be fired by the Burma Army landed and exploded inside Ac--- village, P’Shaw Loh village tract, Daw Hpah Hkoh Township, Taw Oo District. The photo on the left shows a villager named Naw B---, 38 years old, who was hit by shrapnel from one of the shells on her throat and died on the spot. The photo on the right shows Naw B---’s toilet walls, which were also hit by one of the shells. Villagers believe that the shells were fired from Ae--- village, P’Shaw Loh village tract. [Photos: Local villager]
On December 27th 2025, in the morning, the State Security and Peace Commission (SSPC)[2] cut off phone signal from [parts of] Daw Hpah Hkoh (Thandaungyi) Township, Taw Oo (Toungoo) District [including Day Loh Mu Nu Lar Hta village tract[3]]. At 3 pm, the SSPC set up security checkpoints on roads in Day Loh Mu Nu Lar Hta village tract, Daw Hpah Hkoh Township and checked travellers. Later, between 8:06 pm and 8:11 pm, [the KHRG researcher heard] two explosion sounds [from shells landing]. Additionally, [the researcher] heard many gunfire sounds, similar to fighting happening.
[Villagers believed that] the shell type was 79 [M-79], and they were fired by the SSPC soldiers, who were securing [increasing militarisation at roads near] the Karen New Year Hill [a geographical feature within], Thandaungyi Town, Daw Hpah Hkoh Township. [Light Infantry Battalion (LIB)[4] #98 is based near the Karen New Year Hill.] One of the shells landed near the house of a villager named Naw A---, who was pregnant and had three children, [located in] Aa--- place, Thandaungyi Section 1, Day Loh Mu Nu Lar Hta village tract. When the shell landed near her house, the shrapnel hit her neck and her house walls. She bled, so villagers and local leaders sent her to Af--- hospital [administered by the Burma military regime] to receive treatment. [It is unknown to KHRG how much the treatment cost, but hospitals run by the Burma military regime usually charge treatment fees.] The injury on her neck was not severe. While she was receiving treatment, she delivered her fourth baby in the hospital. [The other shell landed outside of the village and did not injure anyone.]
On December 28th 2025, at 11:30 am, KNLA [Karen National Liberation Army][5] [soldiers] combined with PDF [People’s Defence Force][6] [soldiers] under the command of [the KNLA in] Brigade #2 [Taw Oo District], attacked the Thandaungyi Bayin Naung army camp of the SSPC, Thandaungyi Town, with six 107 mm rockets. All the rockets landed inside the SSPC army camp area. The SSPC responded to the attack by conducting shelling, and the shells landed outside of Ab--- village, Day Loh Mu Nuh Lar Hta village tract. No villager sustained injuries or was killed.
On February 3rd 2026, in the morning [before 10 am], the Kan Ni Revolution Army [a local group of the PDF], operating under the KNLA Battalion #5 from Brigade #2, was near a phone signal pole, located close to a road of Ac--- village, P’Shaw Loh village tract, Daw Hpah Hkoh Township. A villager from Ac--- village told [the KHRG researcher that] the Kan Ni Revolution Army [a local PDF group] checked [cars on the road] because the KNLA soldiers had heard that the SSPC would carry their food rations to their army camp with villagers’ cars. [However,] there was no fighting. The Burma Army[7] soldiers sheltered inside a school in Ad--- village, [P’Shaw Loh village tract].
At 10:30 am, two 60 mm shells landed and exploded inside Ac--- village. [The villagers believed that] the shells were fired from IB [Infantry Battalion][8] #26 [leader’s name unknown] which is based near Ae--- village, P’Shaw Loh village tract. The two shells exploded near a house of a villager named Naw B--- (38 years old), located in Ac--- village. When the shelling happened, Naw B--- [was trying to] run into a bunker. While she was running toward the bunker, the shrapnel hit her throat. A few minutes later, she died on the spot. Naw B---, a Karen Christian, is survived by her husband and their three children. The shells also hit her house walls and her toilet walls.
On that night, 200 Burma Army soldiers [battalion unknown] intruded into Ae--- village. [Thus, following the incident,] villagers were afraid [to live in the village] because the Burma Army had conducted shelling.
Further background reading on the situation of shelling in Southeast Burma/Myanmar can be found in the following KHRG reports: