BANGKOK — Myanmar military airstrikes in northern Shan state killed 11 civilians and wounded 11 more, a spokeswoman for an ethnic minority armed group fighting the junta told AFP on Friday.
The junta is battling widespread armed opposition to its 2021 coup, and its soldiers are accused of bloody rampages using air and artillery strikes to punish civilian communities.'They bombed at two areas in Namhkam' town on Friday around 1 a.m. local time, Lway Yay Oo of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army said.The strikes killed 11 and wounded 11, she said, adding that the office of a local political party had been damaged.
Since last year the military has lost swaths of territory near the border with China in northern Shan state to an alliance of armed ethnic minority groups and 'People's Defense Forces' battling to overturn its coup.The groups have seized a regional military command and taken control of lucrative border trade crossings, prompting rare public criticism by military supporters of the junta's top leadership.
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