Myanmar military pounds Rakhine town during clashes

Pauktaw has become one of the key battlegrounds, and residents report heavy battles in and around the town. - FB

BANGKOK: Myanmar's military is carrying out a sustained offensive involving fighter jets to regain control of a key town from an armed ethnic minority group, its fighters and residents said on Wednesday (Nov 29)

The Arakan Army moved into Pauktaw, a town of 20,000 people close to a crucial deepwater port in the capital of western Rakhine state, on Nov 15.