China denies shooting down Burmese warplane
2016-12-07 08:54:25 source：Global Times
December 6, 2016
"China's defense ministry on Tuesday denied that Chinese missiles had hit
a Myanmar warplane, confirming to the Global Times that the news is
"purely fictitious."
A widely circulated news report on Chinese
Internet claimed that a Myanmar Air Force fighter jet crashed near the
Sino-Burmese border on Sunday. The report said the jet was hit by a
Chinese missile when it flew over Chinese territory during its airborne
raid of armed ethnic forces.
Some analysts claim the PLA
artillery fired warning shots at Myanmar jets that entered China's
airspace on Sunday, and that the fleeing jet accidentally bumped into
the shells, which led to its crash. The defense ministry rebuffed the
analysis as fiction."
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