Protesters against last week's military coup in Myanmar swelled into the hundreds of thousands on Tuesday, with police firing warning shots and rubber bullets, and some injuries reported including a 1
Protesters against last week's military coup in Myanmar swelled into the hundreds of thousands on Tuesday, with police firing warning shots and rubber bullets, and some injuries reported including a 19-year-old woman in critical condition after being shot in the head.
Police in Naypyitaw, to which the ban on gatherings of more than four people was expanded on Tuesday, fired rubber bullets and injured some protesters, according to local media, which said the shooting of the woman who was injured also occurred in the capital.In Yangon, demonstrations were held in front of the headquarters of the formerly ruling National League for Democracy, whose leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained, and other locations in the center of the city.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed in Yangon, Mandalay, Naypyitaw and other places in the country, as authorities cited threats to public security, the rule of law and stability.