Bangkok:
Eleven individuals have been killed when a teashop in Myanmar was hit by a navy airstrike within the city of Naungcho within the northern Shan state on Tuesday afternoon, a spokesperson for an area ethnic armed group stated.
The assault, shortly earlier than 3pm native time, comes because the junta battles widespread armed opposition to its 2021 coup and its troopers accused of bloody rampages and utilizing air and artillery strikes to punish civilian communities.
“They have been civilians who got here to drink tea and sitting on the store,” Lway Yay Oo, a spokesperson for the Ta’ang Nationwide Liberation Military (TNLA) stated.
At the least 4 civilians have been wounded and have been receiving remedy in a hospital, she stated.
Native media reported that 11 individuals had died and that many have been injured in a military air assault on Lansan tea store.
Since final 12 months the navy has misplaced swaths of territory close to the border with China in northern Shan state to an alliance of armed ethnic minority teams and “Folks’s Defence Forces” battling to overturn its coup.
The teams have seized a regional navy command and brought management of profitable border commerce crossings, prompting uncommon public criticism by navy supporters of the junta’s high management.
Myanmar has been in turmoil for the reason that navy deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s authorities in 2021 and launched a crackdown that sparked an armed rebellion.
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