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Myanmar military claims armed opposition groups used hospital hit by airstrike as base

Summary

Myanmar’s military on Saturday acknowledged there was an airstrike on a hospital in the western state of Rakhine, which a local rescuer and media reports said killed more than 30 people, including patients, medical workers and children. In a statement published by the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper, the military’s information office said armed groups used the hospital as their base. The groups included the ethnic Arakan Army, as well as the People’s Defense Force and Bamar People’s Liberation Army or BPLA, pro-democracy militias formed after the army takeover in 2021, the statement said.

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Al Jazeera

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Myanmar military claims armed opposition groups used hospital hit by airstrike as base

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