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KHRG received these photos in January 2026 from a villager in Aa--- village, K’Maw Thway village tract, Ler Doh Soe Township, Mergui-Tavoy District. On January 10th 2026, between 1 and 2 pm, an aircraft of the Burma Army dropped two 250-pound bombs into Aa--- village, causing one death, injury to nine villagers, and property damage. The photo at the top is an image of the injuries sustained by two-year-old B--- due to the air strike. The photo at the bottom shows the body of Naw A---, who was injured on her right shoulder and died due to the air strike. [Photos: Local villager]
Air strike in Ler Doh Soe Township:
On January 10th 2026, in the afternoon between 1 and 2 pm, an SAC [Burma Army[2]] aircraft from Bleik (Myeik) Town, Ler Muh Lah Township, Mergui-Tavoy District, conducted an air strike on Aa--- (also known as Ab---) village, K’Maw Thway village tract[3], Ler Doh Soe Township, Mergui-Tavoy District. The aircraft came from the eastern side [of Aa--- village], then conducted an air strike and flew away to the western side [of the village]. The colour of the aircraft, a fighter jet, was sky-blue. The aircraft dropped two 250-pound bombs and fired [bullets] from an Oerlikon [mounted cannon from an aircraft] [at the same time.]
The bombs landed inside the compound of a Karen National Union (KNU)[4]’s township office in Aa--- village. [Villagers who were waiting for their personal legal cases to proceed were staying in the KNU office compound]. The two bombs landed only four to five arm spans [7 to 9 metres] away from each other. The air strike killed a girl and injured [nine others:] seven women, a man, and a girl.
The name of the girl who was killed was Naw[5] A---. She sustained an injury to her right shoulder and then died, inside [a house in] the KNU office compound. She was two years old. [The distance between the explosion location and the building, in the compound, was three arm spans (5 metres) away. Naw A--- and her mother were being supported by the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO)[6] to process a legal case at the KNU office. Specific details about the legal case have been censored for the villagers’ security.]
The name of the other girl, who sustained an injury to her temple, is B---. She was also in the KNU township office compound at the time of the incident. She is also two years old. She is the daughter of a KWO member from Ler Doh Soe Township.
The other seven women and the man who sustained injuries were civil servants under the SAC [Burma Army] military regime. They participated in the 2025 [junta’s] election[7] [during phase 1, on 28th December 2025] at Ab--- Town, Ler Doh Soe Township. They supported the election [unspecified actions], and soldiers from Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)[8] Battalion #10 arrested them.[9] [They were detained in small houses at the KNU township office compound and could not leave the village from the end of December 2025 until January 2026.]
So, when the air strike happened, [one of the bombs landed only four to five arm spans (7 to 9 metres) away from the buildings,] they were all injured. They received treatment [from Karen Department of Health Welfare (KDHW)[10] healthcare workers] and a [local KNU township authority] leader released them, because no one felt [the village was] safe as a result of the air strike.
The [eight civil servants detained] who sustained injuries are listed below:
[Further specific details of the injuries of the victims are unknown to the KHRG researcher.]
Due to the air strike, a clinic administered by the KDHW [in Aa--- village], and villagers’ plantation fields were [also] damaged. Similarly, following the air strike incident, fear grew [among villagers], thus students and teachers fled to a safer place to continue their studies. In some other villages, students were rushed to do their exams earlier than the school’s initial plan. Some villagers were too afraid to live in the [Aa---] village; thus, they moved to their other plantation fields, which are located further away from the village.
Further background reading on the situation on air strikes in Southeast Burma/Myanmar can be found in the following KHRG reports:
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These four photos were taken by a KHRG researcher in January 2026 at Aa--- village, K’Maw Thway village tract, Ler Doh Soe Township, Mergui-Tavoy District. On January 10th 2026, between 1 to 2 pm, a Burma Army aircraft dropped two 250-pound bombs onto Aa--- village, damaging a clinic, villagers’ plantation fields, and buildings of a KNU township office compound. A two-year-old girl was killed, and nine other people (including another child) were injured. The photo on the top left shows that glass windows of the clinic in Aa--- village shattered into pieces. The photo on the top right illustrates damaged plantations. The photos on the bottom right and left show buildings of a KNU township office compound that were hit by the air strike. [Photos: KHRG]
Air strike in Ler Doh Soe Township:
On January 10th 2026, in the afternoon between 1 and 2 pm, an SAC [Burma Army[2]] aircraft from Bleik (Myeik) Town, Ler Muh Lah Township, Mergui-Tavoy District, conducted an air strike on Aa--- (also known as Ab---) village, K’Maw Thway village tract[3], Ler Doh Soe Township, Mergui-Tavoy District. The aircraft came from the eastern side [of Aa--- village], then conducted an air strike and flew away to the western side [of the village]. The colour of the aircraft, a fighter jet, was sky-blue. The aircraft dropped two 250-pound bombs and fired [bullets] from an Oerlikon [mounted cannon from an aircraft] [at the same time.]
The bombs landed inside the compound of a Karen National Union (KNU)[4]’s township office in Aa--- village. [Villagers who were waiting for their personal legal cases to proceed were staying in the KNU office compound]. The two bombs landed only four to five arm spans [7 to 9 metres] away from each other. The air strike killed a girl and injured [nine others:] seven women, a man, and a girl.
The name of the girl who was killed was Naw[5] A---. She sustained an injury to her right shoulder and then died, inside [a house in] the KNU office compound. She was two years old. [The distance between the explosion location and the building, in the compound, was three arm spans (5 metres) away. Naw A--- and her mother were being supported by the Karen Women’s Organisation (KWO)[6] to process a legal case at the KNU office. Specific details about the legal case have been censored for the villagers’ security.]
The name of the other girl, who sustained an injury to her temple, is B---. She was also in the KNU township office compound at the time of the incident. She is also two years old. She is the daughter of a KWO member from Ler Doh Soe Township.
The other seven women and the man who sustained injuries were civil servants under the SAC [Burma Army] military regime. They participated in the 2025 [junta’s] election[7] [during phase 1, on 28th December 2025] at Ab--- Town, Ler Doh Soe Township. They supported the election [unspecified actions], and soldiers from Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)[8] Battalion #10 arrested them.[9] [They were detained in small houses at the KNU township office compound and could not leave the village from the end of December 2025 until January 2026.]
So, when the air strike happened, [one of the bombs landed only four to five arm spans (7 to 9 metres) away from the buildings,] they were all injured. They received treatment [from Karen Department of Health Welfare (KDHW)[10] healthcare workers] and a [local KNU township authority] leader released them, because no one felt [the village was] safe as a result of the air strike.
The [eight civil servants detained] who sustained injuries are listed below:
[Further specific details of the injuries of the victims are unknown to the KHRG researcher.]
Due to the air strike, a clinic administered by the KDHW [in Aa--- village], and villagers’ plantation fields were [also] damaged. Similarly, following the air strike incident, fear grew [among villagers], thus students and teachers fled to a safer place to continue their studies. In some other villages, students were rushed to do their exams earlier than the school’s initial plan. Some villagers were too afraid to live in the [Aa---] village; thus, they moved to their other plantation fields, which are located further away from the village.
Further background reading on the situation on air strikes in Southeast Burma/Myanmar can be found in the following KHRG reports: