Administrative Staff with Supplies returned: Residents along Mandalay-Myitkyina route welcome them

Tatmadaw has carried out counter-terrorism operations in the areas where terrorists temporarily controlled and occupied towns and villages one after another, with the participation of the people, to restore peace and stability for the people.

On 6 May, the Mandalay-Madaya-Thabeikkyin-Tagaung-Htigyaing-Katha-Indaw-Mawlu-Nantsiaung-Mohnyin-Mogaung-Myitkyina communication route was re-controlled fully, and it was reopened. At present, Tatmadaw columns have removed barriers from the communication route with the use of machinery, while battlefield engineering troops and officials from relevant ministries carried out repairs of the roads and bridges destroyed by terrorists to ensure smooth transportation.

Under the management of the government and Tatmadaw, departmental personnel left Mandalay on 9 May by carrying basic foodstuffs, personal goods, construction materials, medicines and medical equipment, school textbooks and fuel by truck together with vehicles of merchants and passenger buses to resume the administrative machinery of the government in towns and villages along the route, fulfill basic needs of people, distribute school textbooks and stationery to be reached before opening schools and provide healthcare services.

The departmental personnel were welcomed by residents in Htigyaing, Katha, Indaw and Mawlu in Sagaing Region. On their arrival in Myitkyina on 12 May, they were warmly welcomed by Kachin State Chief Minister U Khet Htein Nan, Northern Command Commander Maj-Gen Aung Zaw Htwe, officials and residents.

Currently, passenger buses and cargo trucks provide transport services along the route as usual. Residents reportedly expressed their happiness that, with the reopening of the Mandalay-Myitkyina route, travel, daily living, and trade activities would return to normal and become more convenient, while socioeconomic conditions would gradually recover and develop again.

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