Attacks on Myanmar telecom towers show evolving tactics in conflict

FILE PHOTO: People march with the federal flag as they support National Unity Government (NUG) which has been recently announced in Yangon, Myanmar April 18, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

(Reuters) - Around 700,000 people in Myanmar are estimated to have lost internet access after attacks on telecommunication equipment run by Mytel, the partly army-controlled company said amid reports that dozens of its towers were damaged.

The explosions have occurred since the National Unity Government (NUG), a shadow administration formed to resist the army's Feb. 1 coup, declared last week a "people's defensive war" against the junta.