Myanmar air strike kills at least 19 high school students – Armed group

A Myanmar taste number equipped radical said Saturday that a junta aerial onslaught killed astatine slightest 19 students, including children, successful occidental Rakhine state.

The Arakan Army (AA) is engaged successful a fierce combat with Myanmar’s ruling subject for power of Rakhine, wherever it has seized swaths of territory successful the past year.

The Rakhine struggle is 1 constituent of the bloody chaos that has engulfed Myanmar since the subject ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian authorities successful a 2021 coup, sparking a wide equipped uprising.

The AA posted a connection connected Telegram connected Saturday saying the onslaught connected 2 backstage precocious schools successful Kyauktaw township happened conscionable aft midnight Friday, sidesplitting 19 students betwixt the ages of 15 and 21 and wounding 22 more.

“We consciousness arsenic bittersweet arsenic the victims’ families for the decease of the guiltless students,” the connection said.

It blamed the junta for the strike, but AFP’s calls to the junta spokesperson for remark astir the incidental person not been answered.

Local media outlet Myanmar Now reported that a junta warplane dropped 2 500-pound bombs connected a precocious schoolhouse arsenic students slept.

In a statement, UNICEF condemned the “brutal attack”, which it said “adds to a signifier of progressively devastating unit successful Rakhine State, with children and families paying the eventual price”.

AFP was incapable to scope radical connected the crushed astir Kyauktaw wherever net and telephone services are patchy.

The subject is struggling to combat absorption to its regularisation connected aggregate fronts astir Myanmar and it has been regularly accused of utilizing aerial and artillery strikes to deed civilian communities.

AFP

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