Burma: 12 Dead in Military Strike on Internally Displaced Persons Camp, According to Witnesses
Rescuers said 18 others were wounded as the attack hit a camp where residents had lived for four years.
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The Myanmar military launched airstrikes on a displaced persons camp in Rakhine State, resulting in at least 12 deaths and dozens injured.
The attack occurred on Friday evening in the Byar La IDP camp, located in the Canton of Pongyun, northeast of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State. Twelve people were killed in this attack, according to Chit Su Wai, a 27-year-old merchant living in the camp, a report confirmed by Khine Hein Htet, president of the Phyusin Yin Khwin Foundation, a local relief organization. "All I saw were their scattered bodies. I have no words to describe this," …
The New Indian Express
Myanmar airstrike on displaced persons camp kills 12: witnesses
Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military staged a coup five years ago, provoking armed resistance from democracy activists and ethnic minority factions that have long held sway in the nation's fringes.
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