At least 16 people, including 5 children, died in Myanmar.Myanmar) Due to the coup army’s aerial bombardment of a town in the province SagaingLocal media reported this Monday in the western part of the country, in the border region with India.
Warplanes dropped scores of bombs on Sunday morning, detonating near a secondary school and church in the town, according to the PVTV news agency, which is controlled by the parallel government opposed to the military regime, and other local media. Kanannear the city hampan.
The explosions caused the death of 16 people, including five children, and damaged both the buildings and surrounding houses of this predominantly Christian town. Chin ethnicity.
City hampat and its surroundings have been under the control of an alliance of ethnic minority forces and opponents of the military junta since last November.
Clashes between the army and militias have increased since the end of October, following an offensive launched by powerful guerrillas on October 27. MNDAA) and was baptized “Operation 1027”, It expanded to various regions in the north, east, west, central and south of Burma.
The military junta coup, which will celebrate its third anniversary in February, ended a ten-year struggle. democratic transition The arrest of the elected government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma since the uprising has further exacerbated the guerrilla war the country has been experiencing for decades, dragging it into an economic, political and social crisis.