BANGKOK, Thailand -- Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in northern Myanmar, a spokesman for an ethnic rebel group that controls the area told AFP on Tuesday.
Myanmar's junta has been accused of carrying out multiple bloody attacks on civilian targets as it struggles to quell resistance to its 2021 coup.
"We did not hear any aircraft," he noted, saying they were looking into whether the military had used a drone to target the camp near the town of Laiza, on the Chinese border. "The Secretary-General condemns all forms of violence, including the military's intensifying attacks throughout the country, which continue to fuel regional instability," according to a statement from Guterres' office.The British embassy in Yangon said it was"appalled by reports of a Myanmar military strike" that killed civilians.Later, locals and KIA soldiers performed a mass burial for those killed in the strike.
The region has seen heavy fighting in the wake of the 2021 putsch, with the junta accusing the KIA of arming and training the newer People's Defence Forces that have sprung up to battle the junta.
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