Sham Amm, 59, was killed and a teenager wounded after the junta shelled a village in Hakha Township with artillery in an indiscriminate attack following fighting with local resistance forces.

“She was cooking rice in her kitchen when a shell hit her house,” said a man from Neeyar Lawn, where the attack took place on 10 August.

He said the teenager was in hospital. The shelling also disrupted electricity in the village of 170 houses.

Fighting broke out near government housing and the district office in Hakha town around 8am before the army shelled Neeyar Lawn, which is about 7 miles from the Chin State capital.

At least seven houses were damaged in the village.

In late July, soldiers from a BA column that arrived in Neeyar Lawn shot dead Salai Mang Lian San, a worker at a church in the village.