Their teacher, 5 other children were wounded after stepping on a landmine. FMTNews
Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun blames Arakan Army militants for the incident.
Five other children and their teacher were also wounded when the group stepped on the landmine as they went to collect firewood in the village of Kyauk Yan, military spokesman Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun said by phone.He said the landmine was laid by fighters from the Arakan Army, an insurgent group that recruits mostly from Rakhine’s Buddhist majority. A spokesman for the rebels, who want more autonomy for Rakhine state, blamed the blast on the military.
Last year, 143 children were killed or wounded in numerous civil wars being fought along Myanmar’s porous borders, the United Nations Children’s Fund said. The region came to global attention in 2017 when more than 730,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh to escape an army crackdown which UN investigators said was carried out with “genocidal intent”.
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