The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has taken over the three junta camps near to Tayang Zup Village on the Myitkyina to Sumprabum Road in Myitkyina Township, Kachin State on, 2 August.

KIA Brigade 1 launched its offensives against the three junta camps on 1 August and by the next morning, 2 August, had captured all of them.

The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) press officer, Colonel Nawbu said to the Myitkyina News Journal: “The camp in Tay Zup Village was occupied at 9:00 am this morning”

A resident of Tayang Zup Village said that previously there had only been one junta camp in the Village, but the junta had built two further camps just outside the village. One in the direction of Jawng Kawng Village and one in the direction of Cross Mountain.

Colonel Nawbu said that there had been 40 junta soldiers stationed in the three camps and the KIA is currently hunting down those soldiers who managed to flee from the camps before they were captured.

Tayang Zup Village is about 50 miles north of Myitkyina Town on the Mali Kha River, just upstream of where it joins the N’Mai River to form the mighty Irrawaddy River.