Dozens of people in coup-hit Myanmar's central region were killed in air strikes Tuesday, according to local media reports and a witness contacted by AFP. ManilaBulletin
The country has been in chaos and its economy in tatters since the military seized power in February 2021.
Sagaing region -- near the second-largest city Mandalay -- has put up some of the fiercest resistance to the military's rule, with intense fighting raging there for months. A rescuer -- connected to an anti-coup People's Defence Force group -- told AFP that women and children were among the dead. Myanmar's National Unity Government , a shadow body dominated by former lawmakers from ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, condemned the strike as a "heinous act".A spokesperson for the United Nations Special Envoy to Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, said agencies were trying to verify the reports.The military, which accuses anti-coup fighters of being terrorists, has faced international condemnation for razing villages, mass killings and air strikes on civilians.
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