BANGKOK — Myanmar military airstrikes hit a hospital in a city controlled by an ethnic minority armed group close to the China border, killing 10 people, local media reported on Friday.
Military planes carried out at least two airstrikes on Laukkai city, normally home to some 25,000 people, late on Thursday night, a resident told AFP. Myanmar 's northern Shan state has been rocked by fighting since late June, when an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups renewed an offensive against the military along a major trade highway to China .
The junta has bombed Laukkai several times in recent weeks after the MNDAA renewed its offensive in northern Shan state, shredding a Beijing-brokered ceasefire.In recent days, MNDAA fighters have entered the town of Lashio, also in northern Shan state and home to the military's northeastern command.Fighting was ongoing in Lashio on Friday, a military source told AFP, requesting anonymity to talk to the media.
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