Fighting intensifies as Myanmar armed group seizes China-Myanmar border crossing

Roughly 120 trucks, parked near the border crossing, went up in flames earlier in the week, with the junta blaming armed groups. - PHOTOS: REUTERS.

BANGKOK (AFP): An ethnic minority armed group in Myanmar has seized control from the country's ruling junta of a lucrative border crossing to China, local media and a security source said Sunday.

Clashes have raged across Myanmar's northern Shan state, close to the Chinese border, after an armed alliance of three ethnic minority groups launched an offensive against the military in October.