Most Lashio residents have fled fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed groups, who haven’t been welcomed as liberators by those who have had their lives upended by the conflict.
On May 31, a massive warehouse explosion in Kaung Tap village, in northern Shan State’s Namkham Township, damaged hundreds of houses and killed dozens of residents, leaving survivors to deal with the aftermath and leading some to wonder whether it is even worth rebuilding.
BY Frontier
