The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) on Monday freed three abducted Myanmar police officers and handed over them to the peace mediator to be transferred to the government side, according to a member of the mediator.

U Lamai Gum Ja, member of the Peace Talks Creation Group (PCG), told Xinhua over phone that the freed three police officers are on the way to Phakant, the battlefield of the two sides, to be transferred to the government side.

According to the Kachin media, sporadic armed clashes between the Myanmar government troops and the KIA continued on Monday.

The clashes between the two sides broke out last Thursday following the ambush by KIA on a convoy of Kachin state transport minister U Kamann Du Naw on Wednesday on a highway in the area.

Although the minister was freed and allowed to proceed after being questioned, three police officers, who escorted the minister, were abducted.