Myanmar Airstrike Toll Hits 50 as Families Gather Dead
Aid workers said the death toll reached 50 and 58 people were injured after the military bombed a riverside market and bridge, with more bodies missing in fires.
- On Monday, a Myanmar military airstrike bombed a riverside commercial hub in Kyauktaw, Rakhine, killing 50 people and injuring 58.
- The market and adjacent bridge had become a hive of trading activity since civil war broke out in Myanmar following the 2021 military coup, with The Arakan Army controlling most of Rakhine.
- Victims included "innocent passersby, market vendors, shoppers and cargo loaders," a statement said, while aid worker Wai Hun Aung warned the final fatality figure may rise because some bodies were lost in fires.
- Conflict monitor ACLED reports more than 100,000 people have been killed in Myanmar since the 2021 putsch, while UN data indicates nearly half-a-million people are living displaced in Rakhine.
- Rights groups accuse the air wing of targeting civilians at schools and monasteries, potentially constituting war crimes, though the Myanmar military uses fighter jets manufactured by Russia and China and has not been reached for comment.
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The death toll from a Myanmar army airstrike on a busy market in Rakhine state has risen to 50. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday condemned an airstrike carried out by the Myanmar army on Monday targeting a crowded market in the western part of the Southeast Asian country, in an area controlled by insurgents, which has now killed 50 people.
There have been many victims of military attacks on a market in Myanmar.
Rebel groups in Myanmar and local officials say the death toll from Myanmar's military airstrikes in Rakhine State has risen to 50 after rescue teams found more bodies.
A military airstrike on a market in western Myanmar has killed 50 people, two local aid workers at the scene said on Tuesday.
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