Army, militia clashes kill 6
Four protesters and at least two officers were killed as Myanmar soldiers battled an anti-junta civilian militia with small arms and grenades in the country's second city yesterday, military sources said.
Fighting has flared across Myanmar since the February coup as people form "defence forces" to battle a brutal military crackdown on dissent, but clashes have largely been restricted to rural areas.
Acting on a tip-off, security forces raided a house in Mandalay's Chan Mya Tharsi township in the morning, the junta's information team said in a statement, and were met with small arms fire and grenades.
Two officers were killed during the raid, military sources told AFP, and at least ten were wounded. Four "terrorists" were killed and eight arrested, it added.
Since the mass uprising against the military putsch, a brutal crackdown has killed more than 870 civilians, according to reports.
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