A landmine explosion has seriously injured a woman in Hnat Pyaw Chaung Village in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State.
The woman with the catastrophic injury is 49-year-old Daw Aye Mya from Hnat Pyaw Chaung Village.
Yesterday, June 17, at around 11 pm, while the injured woman and other 4 women went to Kyaukpan Mountain for the bamboo shoot near the village, she stepped into the mines and injured her leg severely. The explosion injured her left almost cutting out and slightly in the left arm.
Her relative U Htoo Aung Myint said, “When they went for the bamboo shoot, there were 5. When she stepped the mine, there was one beside her, but she did not injure. Only one was injured and her leg has to amputate according to her injury condition”.
The woman is currently treating at Sittwe Hospital for amputation of her left leg and requires financial assistance for the treatment.
The injured woman has a 19-year-old daughter who is attending university and is struggling to make relying on the forest and mountain for a living to send her daughter to university, according to the Rakhine Ethnic Congress (REC).
There have been two previous landmine explosions near Kyaukpan Mountain, about one and half hours away from Hnat Pyaw Chaung Village, where a mine exploded similarly yesterday. An explosion in 2019 injured two men, according to locals.
