On Monday, the regime flew eight airstrikes on two villages in the Loi Mawk area, where ethnic armed groups are active in northern Shan State.

“We saw flashes in the sky as the jet bombarded these villages. The Burma army also attacked these villages with artillery from the 105-mile trade zone,” said an anonymous local from Muse town.

A woman, who also spoke with SHAN anonymously, heard the jet fighter and couldn’t sleep the whole night, terrified a shell would strike her home. “My windows were shaking when they fired artillery shells.”

The man pointed out the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army, and Kachin Independence Army have troops in Loi Mawk village-tract. Considering the extensive fighting with the TNLA in the area, he assumed it must have been the one targeted during the attack on Nam Lane and Mang Harn, located only about 11 miles from the town of Muse along the Chinese border.

Civilians who have remained in Jae Lant village-tract, where much of the fighting has been breaking out, are digging shelters to hide from the ongoing junta airstrikes.

“We have already dug a bunker, and I think other villagers are also digging bunkers. As we have no idea when a jet fighter will attack our area—one could drop bombs on our village at any time—we are fortifying them with concrete,” said Nang Kham (not her real name) from the village of Jae Lant.

Some villagers, who said it’s unsafe to travel at this point, have stocked up on food and medicine to wait out the clashes.

According to another local anonymous source, junta troops fought with the TNLA in the village-tract prior to the airstrikes on the villages, which are located in the Loi Mawk and Loi Nam Kat mountain range in Loi Mawk village-tract. SHAN didn’t have any information about casualties caused by these attacks.