The bodies of 14 people, including three women, are found on a small island in a river in Nyaung Yin. Three more male victims are found in Tar Taing, including two members of the local resistance.
A leader of a Sagaing resistance group called the Demon King Defense Force said his group attacked the better-armed government troops on Wednesday in a failed effort to rescue the detained villagers.
Photos said to be of their bodies, found at Kan Daw village, about 12 kilometres north-west of Tar Taing, were circulated on social media. Online media supportive of the military government have made the same claim about the recent incidents in Sagaing or suggested that they were the result of factional fighting within the resistance.
International courts are considering whether it committed genocide there in a brutal 2017 counterinsurgency campaign that caused more than 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh for safety.
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