The air strike takes place on Thursday, with four bombs dropped on Khuafo, a village of about 60 households in Chin State, bordering India.
At least eight civilians including children were killed in an air strike on a village in northwest Myanmar, according to a human rights group, ethnic minority rebels, and media, the latest violence as the ruling military battles to consolidate power.
Myanmar has been in turmoil since a coup two years ago, with attacks by ethnic minority armies and a resistance fighters challenging the rule of the military, which has responded with air strikes and heavy weapons, including in civilian areas. The air strike took place on Thursday, March 30, with four bombs dropped on Khuafo, a village of about 60 households in Chin State, bordering India, according to the Chin Human Rights Organisation and the Chin National Front.
Both groups said two children, ages 3 and 9, were among the dead. Reuters could not independently verify the accounts and a spokesperson for the junta could not be reached on Friday. Salai Mang Hre Lian of the Chin Human Rights Organization said there were no resistance fighters based in the village.Pictures shared by the CHRO, which could not be verified by Reuters, showed damaged houses and the bodies of two children in coffins made from planks of wood.
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