"With ongoing fighting between the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, and armed ethnic rebel groups in their own backyards, villagers in northern Shan State’s Kutkai Township fear for their own safety and wellbeing, as neighbors wounded in the crossfire find themselves cutoff from access to medical care. At least two civilians are now wounded and in urgent need of medical care there, in the village of Mong Yu, but are trapped by the ongoing conflict and cut off from access to nearby hospitals, local sources told The Irrawaddy. Mai Aike Ywan was shot in the leg and hand Sunday evening while driving his motorbike on a stretch of highway that fighting has spread to in the wake of an ethnic armed groups’ counteroffensive against the Tatmadaw. “He was brought to the village clinic last night for treatment,” Ta’ang Women’s Organization (TWO) member Kham Mat said. “His blood pressure was low, and his wounds could be fatal,” she said, adding that he was in urgent need of medical care at a hospital..."