As many as 18 people have been killed, including children, while 20 others were injured in an airstrike by the Junta in Western Myanmar on Friday, officials said.
The Junta forces, according to eyewitnesses, bombed a private boarding school in Thayat Tabin Village in Arakan Army-controlled Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine (Arakan) state. Earlier on September 02, in Bhamo town, township and district, in Kachin state, a hospital was damaged.
While a patient was injured in the artillery shelling by the Kachin Independence Army. The medical sources later told reporters at the site that some of the patients were treated at the public hospital due to a shortage of health workers, while the civilians were treated at the medical battalion.
The hospital was recently closed due to the raid in the nearby villages by the Myanmar military. The hospital was constructed in 2022 and began operating in early 2023. Myanmar has been marred by the deadly ethnic violence, which triggered a massive refugee crisis, resulting in persecution, purging and forced expulsions of the Muslim communities.
In recent years, the country has been witnessing the ongoing ethnic clashes since the Junta took power in 2021. However, the junta has agreed to hold general elections on December 28 later this year.
Also Read: Indian drones hit ULFA-I bases in Myanmar, Chief Nayan Asom down
Follow us
