Clashes broke out at Hlayswe, some 150 kilometres northwest of the main city of Yangon, when soldiers said they had come to search for weapons, according to local media reports.
Military shells positions held by newly formed Chinland Defence Forces, which has led fighting in Mindat town in northwestern Chin State.
From US to Singapore, governments around the world are calling for a return to civilian rule under a previously established power-sharing system with the army. Protests against the coup also staged in different parts of the world.
The clarification from the country's powerful military came after its commander-in-chief spurred fears of a coup when he suggested that the 2008 junta-scripted constitution could be repealed.
The UN has expressed concern over "reports of intensified fighting" in northwest Rakhine state's Rathedaung township.
Aid groups say the pace of new arrivals in Bangladesh has escalated since January 3, as India hands over more stateless Muslim refugees to Myanmar army.
Ethnic Rakhine militants launched pre-dawn raids on four police stations near Bangladesh border, Myanmar army says. Militant group Arakan Army, which wants more autonomy, says it took 14 security personnel "prisoners of war".
Rohingya refugees demand Dhaka recognise their ethnicity as 'Rohingya' and that officials and aid agencies stop sharing their family information with Myanmar fearing reprisals.
The men, who had been in detention for immigration offences since 2012, were handed over to Myanmar authorities at a border crossing in India's northeast state of Manipur.
Myanmar’s government says it repatriated the first family of Rohingya refugees, among 700,000 who fled to Bangladesh during a brutal crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state. However, Bangladesh and the UN refugee agency disputed the repatriation claim.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) survey finds that at least 6,700 Muslim Rohingya were killed by Myanmar's military in the first month of a violent crackdown in Rakhine State which began in late August.
Global aid groups warn Myanmar they will not operate in any camps for Rohingya refugees in Rakhine state, saying refugees must be allowed to settle in their original homes.
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