BANGKOK: A Myanmar military airstrike on a village killed ten civilians, locals and media reports said on Wednesday.
Fighting has ravaged swathes of Myanmar since a coup in 2021, with the junta battling ethnic rebels and dozens of new “People’s Defense Forces” across the country.
Rights groups accuse the military of extrajudicial killings, razing villages and using air strikes as collective punishment of its opponents.
A military jet dropped three bombs on Nyaung Kone village in the northern Sagaing region on Tuesday afternoon, according to Ko Zaw Tun, an anti-coup fighter from the village.
Ten people were killed and eight wounded, he said.
“There was no fighting, but they came to bomb the village,” he said, adding 11 houses had been destroyed in the attack.
A resident of Nyaung Kone also said that ten people had been killed in the strike.
He and other locals had cremated the dead later that evening, he said, asking not to use his name due to fear of reprisal.
“We did not know what their (the military’s) next plan is. So, we just held funerals for them as soon as we could,” he said.
BBC Burmese and other local media also reported the air strikes, with some outlets saying nine people had been killed.
Images published by local media showed people working to douse smoldering debris and ash, and a large building in ruins.
AFP digital verification reporters confirmed the images had not appeared online before Tuesday.
More than two years after launching its coup, the military is struggling to crush resistance to its rule.
Battling fierce opposition on the ground, experts say it is resorting to artillery strikes and air power.
The military carried out more than 300 air strikes in the last year, the United Nations said in March.
Sagaing has emerged as a hotspot of anti-junta resistance.
In April, the military bombed a gathering in Sagaing that media and locals said killed about 170 people, sparking renewed global condemnation of the isolated junta.
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“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” Frey said at a news conference.
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“Please do not destroy our city,” he said.
The nearby Minneapolis Institute of Art said it had closed for the day due to safety concerns.
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Myanmar air strikes kill 10 civilians: locals, media reports
- Fighting has ravaged swathes of Myanmar since a coup in 2021, with the junta battling ethnic rebels and dozens of new ‘People’s Defense Forces’ across the country
Federal immigration agents fatally shoot second person in Minneapolis
- Border Patrol agents fired in defense at a man who approached them with a handgun and two magazines
- Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the man was a 37-year-old city resident who was believed to be a US citizen
MINNEAPOLIS, USA: Federal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday, local and federal officials said, the second fatal shooting involving federal agents this month during a surge in immigration enforcement in the northern US city.
The US Department of Homeland Security said Border Patrol agents fired in defense at a man who approached them with a handgun and two magazines.
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said the man was a 37-year-old city resident who was believed to be a US citizen. He did not release the name of the man, who he said was a lawful gun owner with no criminal record.
A video circulating on social media and aired on cable news stations showed people wearing masks and tactical vests wrestling with a man on a snow-covered street before shots are heard. In the video, the man falls to the ground, and several more shots are heard.
Later, video from the area showed immigration agents deploying tear gas on a growing crowd of onlookers.
MAYOR, GOVERNOR CALL FOR OPERATION TO END
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey called for an immediate end to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in the state.
“How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?” Frey said at a news conference.
The state’s governor and two US senators also called for federal agents to leave.
Trump has been briefed on the shooting, a White House official told Reuters.
O’Hara said there was a “volatile scene” at the site of the shooting and asked people to avoid the area.
“Please do not destroy our city,” he said.
The nearby Minneapolis Institute of Art said it had closed for the day due to safety concerns.
The shooting came one day after more than 10,000 people took to the frigid streets to protest the presence of the 3,000 federal agents who have been ordered to the state by Trump.
Residents have been angered by several incidents, including the killing of US citizen Renee Good, the detention of a US citizen who was taken from his home in his underwear, and the detention of school children, including a 5-year-old boy.
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis to show support for immigration officers and to ask local leaders and activists to reduce tensions, saying US Immigration and Customs Enforcement was carrying out an important mission to detain immigration violators.
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