A Myanmar Nationwide Airways (MNA) passenger aircraft got here underneath gunfire because it was touchdown at Kayah State’s Loikaw Airport on Friday morning. One passenger was harm within the taking pictures and his situation is at the moment unknown based on a person named Thai, a neighborhood resident who spoke to RFA this morning.
Photographs went viral on Fb displaying a bloody seat with some items of tissue paper and bandage. There was additionally what seemed like a bullet gap within the aircraft’s ground.
Based on a report issued by the Army Council shortly after the incident, the Karenni Nationwide Progressive Occasion (KNPP) and the Karenni regional Folks’s Protection Pressure shot on the MNA aircraft. The report stated the aircraft was carrying 63 passengers and was hit because it flew at an altitude of about 3,500 toes (1 kilometer) at 8:45 this morning because it was descending to the touch down at Loikaw Airport. The report stated the center of the aircraft was hit and a passenger’s proper cheek was struck by bullets.
Khu Reedu, a spokesperson for the Karenni Nationwide Protection Pressure (KNDF), declined to touch upon the taking pictures of the aircraft or the navy council’s assertion.
MNA stated that every one flights to Loikaw have been indefinitely postponed within the wake of the taking pictures.