Myanmar Railways reports hundreds of attacks on railroads, bridges, stations

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.