Myanmar air strike on stranded convoy kills eight: residents

Myanmar air strike on stranded convoy kills eight: residents

An air strike on a Myanmar civilian supply convoy trapped between junta troops and anti-coup rebels battling outside its second largest city killed at least eight people, two locals said Wednesday. Myanmar’s embattled military has increasingly deployed its air force to fend off the myriad of opponents facing it in a civil war it sparked with a 2021 coup, but civilian casualties are commonplace. Two local residents in the central Sagaing region, …