Shan State rebels fall into ambush

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Shan State rebels fall into ambush
Mae Hong Son - An attempt by some 30 Shan State Army rebels to seize a drug
production factory in Burma opposite Pang Ma Pha district last week failed
because of an ambush by Burmese troops, according to a border source.
The source said the anti-Rangoon guerrillas who had destroyed three drug
plants
in eastern Shan State over the past two months tried in vain on Feb 26 to
seize
a plant owned by some Chinese Haw people in Burma as they were attacked by
five
Burmese soldiers of the 65th battalion on their way to the factory. 
According to the source, a Shan rebel was killed and his M-16 assault rifle
together with a communicative radio were seized in the ambush.

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