YANGON: Myanmar Railways (MR) reported that there have been 205 mine attacks in the area of railways and train stations, 163 mine attacks on railway bridges and 42 arson attacks on station buildings and staff housings in more than three years from February 1, 2021, to May 21, 2024.
The government is trying to improve the railway and infrastructure to make public travel and freight transportation convenient and fast and to upgrade the train transportation system but the terrorist insurgents have destroyed state-owned locomotives and trains, railways and bridges, injuring passengers and causing damage to goods and to make it impossible for people to travel safely.
On May 20, the MR reported that a group of terrorists detonated mines and destroyed the 60-feet bridge No. 78 in milepost 124/14-13 between Thein Seik and Don Won stations in the Bago-Mawlamyine railway section in Thaton Township.
Officials and members of the security forces arrived at 5:45am on May 21 at the scene of the incident and inspected the area they found a mine in a black plastic bag with a cotton wire attached to the road crossing 1,000 feet away from the Yangon side before reaching the bridge and they destroyed it.
Mines exploded at four places on the bridge and about one foot left and right of the track is damaged.
On May 21, at 6:30am, the Thein Seik-Don Won railway section was temporarily closed, and officials made repairs to reopen the section on time, and the section was reopened at 10:14am, announced the MR. - Eleven Media/ANN
