Wuntho was a native state of Upper Burma when Burma was under British control. After the British annexed Upper Burma in 1885, Wuntho became a refuge for rebels and Dacoit leaders until in 1891, when a force of 1,800 British soldiers under General Sir George Wolseley occupied the town of Wuntho. In 1892 the state was formally annexed by the British and incorporated into the District of Katha. It was classed by the Burmese as a Shan state, but was never on the same footing as the Shan states to the east.
Wuntho had an area of around 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) with 150,000 inhabitants and lay midway between the Ayeyarwady River and Chindwin River.

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Wuntho is a town in Katha District, Sagaing Division, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Wuntho Township.

History

While not the capital, it gave its name to the native state of Wuntho^[1] which was formally annexed to Burma by the British in 1892. Rail service from Mandalay was extended to Wuntho in 1893.^[2]
On 30 December 1994, on the outskirts of Wuntho on the Bonkyaung bridge a Mandalay-Myitkyina passenger train derailed when its brakes failed and one passenger car plummeted into a ravine. In all, 102 people were killed and 53 were seriously injured.^[3][4]
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuntho,_Burma  

Notes

5. Crosthwaite, Charles Haukes Todd (1912) The Pacification of Burma E. Arnold, London, page 92, OCLC 7223137
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7. Dautremer, Joseph (1913) Burma under British Rule (translated from Dautremer, Joseph (1912) La Birmanie sous le régime britannique: une colonie modèle Guilmoto, Paris, OCLC 250415892) T.F. Unwin, London, page 205, OCLC 9493684; full text pp. 194-213 from the online library eBooksRead.com
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9. Associated Press (2 January 1995) "Train derails in Myanmar, 102 killed" Toronto Star page A-13
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Staff (5 January 1995) "Rail derailment kills 102, injures 53" BBC Summary of World Broadcasts from Radio Myanmar, Rangoon, in Burmese, 1330 GMT 31 December 1994