On February 25, near Naibi Nin Village, Kyaukmei Township, in northern Shan State, Myanmar, a 30-year-old man was holding a chainsaw to chop firewood, and accidentally touched an unbelievable shell with a chainsaw, resulting in the shell**, and the man's feet and arms were injured and he was seriously injured.
A person in an informed area said that while chopping firewood in the mountains, the chainsaw accidentally touched an unexploded shell, which should have fallen there before and was not **, it was covered by something, and when he was chopping wood with a chainsaw, he touched the shell**, and the man's left foot was injured, the injury was serious, and his arm was injured by shrapnel.
People close to the injured man's family told him that the man had been transferred to Mandalay for treatment because of the serious injury to his left foot, and that his family was not wealthy and was experiencing difficulties.
Another local resident said that Kyaukmei did not have a doctor, so she had to be transferred to Mandalay for treatment, and her left foot was so badly injured that she might need to have it amputated. Chopping wood with a chainsaw is fast, but how to get to the shell is not clear.
On February 25, in the sugarcane field near Naobi Village, Nauben Town, Kyaukmei Town, four men who had cut sugarcane and loaded sugarcane into a truck had a ** accident due to an unexploded rocket, killing one person and seriously injuring three others.
As a result, on February 25, in the town of Kyaukmei, due to unexploded shells**, one person was killed, four people were injured, and all five were men.
The statistics of the Landmine Surveillance Study Group from 2017 to 2022 show that Shan State has the largest number of civilians due to landmines and post-war remnants. Most of them don't know that they are left over from the war and landmines and go to touch and play, and they actually happen, causing **, and most of them are adult males, with a proportion of 59.
According to a separate record by the Mine Surveillance Research Group, Kyaukmei Township is the township with the highest number of landmine incurreds, with more than 120 incidents of accidentally stepping on landmines, 58 in Seb Township and 38 in Gui Township.