02/22/2015
RANGOON — Five people including one journalist were injured Saturday during a second ambush on a Red Cross vehicle in less than a week in northeast Burma’s troubled Kokang region, according to state-run daily The Mirror.
The attack near Chin Shwe Haw along the Sino-Burmese border followed a similar incident on Tuesday, when two Red Cross volunteers were injured in an ambush by unknown assailants.
The newspaper reported on Sunday that a truck visibly bearing the Red Cross insignia was attacked by Kokang rebels on the way back to Chin Shwe Haw from Laukkai on Saturday afternoon. The truck was carrying 13 people including Red Cross workers, internally displaced persons and journalists, according to the Myanmar Red Cross Society, which confirmed the ambush in a Facebook post on Sunday.
During the attack, one Red Cross official and a journalist from the government-affiliated Myanmar Radio and Television-4 were wounded, along with three others believed to be migrant workers from Upper Burma. All of the victims sustained minor injuries and were admitted to Kunlong General Hospital in Shan State, about 30 miles southwest of Laukkai.
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