Gunfire has rocked the area since late on July 2.
YANGON - Clashes broke out near a regional military command in northern Myanmar on July 3, residents and local media said, in what appeared to be a widening offensive against junta troops.
Fighting was happening outside the town, another resident told an AFP correspondent, who heard one explosion down the phone. Lashio sits on a major highway that runs from the second city of Mandalay to China’s Yunnan province.
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