Junta air raids on two Sagaing area villages killed 12 civilians together with a monk, locals informed RFA Wednesday.
They stated 11 folks from Pale township’s Nyaung Kone and one from Pi Tauk Kone village died in Tuesday’s assault.
A faculty instructor from Nyaung Kone, who didn’t need to be named for safety causes, informed RFA the air power dropped three 500-pound bombs across the village monastery, killing one monk and 10 locals.
“It occurred once I was instructing kids in school,” the instructor stated.
“I used to listen to the aircraft approaching however this time I didn’t hear it till the bomb exploded. The bomb’s fragments and mud flew in direction of our college. Some folks had been already lifeless once I arrived on the scene of the explosions. Some are injured and receiving emergency medical remedy.”
The monk was named as 55-year-old Kay Mar. Six males and two ladies, aged between 41 and 70, died on the spot. 4 of the lifeless had been kin of the monk.
An 18-year-old girl and a 48-year-old man had been critically injured and died in Pale Township Hospital on Tuesday evening.
All of the our bodies had been cremated on Tuesday evening.
Residents stated six extra folks had been injured and receiving remedy within the village.
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A member of the Folks’s Administration Group of Pale township stated that the junta attacked the village with Russian-made Yakovlev Yak-130 jet, destroying the monastery and 13 homes.
Locals stated a lady died and one other was injured in a separate air raid on Pi Tauk Kone village on Tuesday evening.
The names and the ages of the lifeless and injured aren’t but identified as a result of it’s tough to contact Pi Tauk Kone by cellphone.
RFA referred to as Sagaing area junta spokesperson Aye Hlaing on Wednesday however no person answered.
There have been 454 airstrikes throughout Myanmar between January and April 2023, in response to unbiased analysis group Nyan Lynn Thit Analytica, leading to 292 deaths.
Translated by RFA Burmese. Edited by Mike Firn.