Junta airstrike on Myanmar college kills round a dozen youngsters and their 2 lecturers

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village within the nation’s central Sagaing area hit a faculty on Monday, 12 Could, killing as many as 20 college students and two lecturers, in accordance with a member of a resistance group, an support employee and media experiences.

The morning assault on Ohe Htein Twin village within the area’s Tabayin township, also referred to as Depayin, additionally wounded dozens of scholars, they stated.

Neither the army authorities nor state-controlled media have launched details about the reported airstrike.

The army has more and more used airstrikes to counter a widespread armed wrestle in opposition to its rule, which started in February 2021 when it seized energy from the elected authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Greater than 6,600 civilians are estimated to have been killed by safety forces since then, in accordance with figures compiled by nongovernmental organisations.

A member of the White Depeyin Folks’s Defence Power resistance group preventing in opposition to military rule informed the Related Press {that a} fighter jet dropped a bomb immediately onto a faculty, the place many college students from major to highschool ranges have been finding out after 9 a.m.

The realm is about 115 kilometres northwest of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest metropolis.