There is no official death toll from Tuesday morning's strike, although military authorities confirmed they had carried out an operation in the area.
Myanmar has been in crisis since the military toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in a February 2021 coup, with an estimated 3,200 civilians killed as part of the junta's crackdown on dissent.
A villager involved in cremating the bodies, who asked not to be identified to protect his safety, said on Friday his team had revised its death count up to 171 from 130 a day earlier. The United Kingdom, Myanmar's former colonial ruler, has called for the United Nations Security Council to meet to discuss the incident.
The Sagaing region is a rebel stronghold near Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city. It has put up some of the fiercest resistance to the military's rule, with intense fighting raging for months.
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