BANGKOK, Thailand: Dozens of people in central Myanmar were killed in air strikes Tuesday, according to local media reports and a witness contacted by AFP, as the United Nations and Western powers condemned the attacks and demanded accountability.
The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos and its economy in tatters since the military seized power in February 2021 coup. UN rights chief Volker Turk said he was 'horrified' by the deadly air strikes whose victims he said included schoolchildren performing dances, with the global body calling for those responsible to be brought to justice.The death toll from the early Tuesday morning strike on the remote Kanbalu township in Sagaing region is unclear.
'Great painSagaing region — near the country's second-largest city, Mandalay — has put up some of the fiercest resistance to the military's rule, with intense fighting raging there for months.Graphic video clips circulating on social media — footage AFP has been unable to verify —- show bodies scattered among ruined homes.'We are going to rescue you if we hear you screaming,' one person could be heard saying in the video.
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