Type of Incident

[Drone strike.] SAC [State Administration Council,[2] also known as the Burma Army[3]] drone strike killed two women and injured one child.

Date of Incident(s)

31 March 2026

Incident Location

(Village, Township and District)

Aa--- village, Meh Ka Tha village tract,[4] Noh T’Kaw Township, Dooplaya District.

Victim Information

Name

Naw[5] A---

Naw B---

Naw C---

Age

31 years old

33 years old

6 years old

Gender

Woman

Woman

Girl

Ethnicity

Karen

Karen

Karen

Marital Status  

Married

Married

-

Occupation

Dependent

Daily worker

Student

Religion

Buddhist

Christian

-

Position

Villager

Villager

Villager

Village

Ab--- Town [Kaw T’Ree Township, Dooplaya District]

Ac--- village, Ayeyarwady Region

Ac--- village, Ayeyarwady Region

Perpetrator Information (Armed Actors)

Type of Aircraft

Unit

Base

Commander’s Name

Drone [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle]

State Administration Council Air Force

Unknown

[General Htun Aung serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Burma Army Air Force]

1. Explain in detail how you collected this information.

A local leader in Dooplaya District sent the photos, including death photos, names, and ages, so I [a KHRG researcher] knew about this incident. [The KHRG researcher went to the incident place, conducted interviews with the victims’ family members, and took some photos of the damage.]

2. Explain how the source verified this information.

The people who provided the information to me [a KHRG researcher] are the husbands of the dead women. [The victims] were killed because the State Administration Council’s drone dropped 200-pound bombs. [The KHRG researcher conducted interviews with both of the victims' husbands to verify the information.]

Describe the Incident(s) in complete detail.

Aa--- village, Meh Ka Tha village tract, Noh T’Kaw (Kyainseikgyi) Township, Dooplaya District, is under control of the KNU [Karen National Union].[6] The KNU controls the main road from Per Hkler village [Thai border, Umphang District] to the Three Pagodas Pass [Thai border, Kanchanaburi Province]. There are some mining areas along the road, so the SAC often conducts air strikes.

On 31 March 2026, at 10 am, the SAC conducted a drone strike beside the main road in Aa--- village. The drone dropped two 200-pound bombs, killing two villagers, injuring one child, and destroying a shop that was selling betelnut and some soft drinks. [The shrapnel from the explosion also damaged the roof of a pigsty.] Naw A--- (31 years old) is the shop owner, and she was injured on her whole body by the shrapnel from the explosion. She was transported to a DKBA [Democratic Karen Benevolent Army][7] Bo[8] Aay Wah clinic[9] [in Noh T'Kaw Township], but she died within half an hour.   

Furthermore, the shrapnel from the explosion hit a villager's house located 300 yards (274 metres) away from the place where the bomb landed and killed the owner, Naw B--- (33 years old), also injuring her daughter, Naw C--- (6 years old). Naw B--- sustained an injury to her abdomen. She was taken to the [DKBA] clinic, but she died before receiving treatment. Her daughter, Naw C---, was injured on her left arm, and her arm was broken. She was also sent to the DKBA clinic. She received treatment [free of charge], and a metal implant was inserted in her arm. [As 7 April 2026,] she was discharged from the clinic, but she still needs to go to the clinic for a medical appointment.

Naw B---’s husband, Saw[10] D---, explained to KHRG: “She [Naw B---] was playing with her daughter [Naw C---] during the incident. […] I had to look after my children, so I could not take care of their mother [when she got injured]. The other one [Naw C---] was injured on her arm and ran back to me, and I carried her. I saw her mother was dirty with blood. My son ran to his mother, but when he saw his mother [was injured], he ran back to me. I did not know what to say when they [son and daughter] were crying. I tried to ask for help from others, but everyone else was also running. I tried to look for a car [to transport the victim to the clinic for treatment]. At around 11 am, they [the victims] were transported [to the clinic].”   

After the incident, the victims’ family members dared not to sleep in their house at night because they had experienced an incident that they had never seen before. They slept in the ditch behind their house to avoid the danger of the aircraft. Similarly, other villagers also slept in another place far from their houses at night temporarily.

Did the victim(s) provide permission to use this information? Explain how that permission was provided.

[The KHRG researcher] asked for permission from the victims’ family members, and they allowed KHRG to use the information.