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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shweta Sharma

Myanmar military accused of possible war crime after 34 killed in hospital strike

At least 34 patients and medical staff have been killed in a Myanmar military airstrike on a hospital in the western state of Rakhine, rescue workers and witnesses said, in what rights experts warn could amount to a war crime.

About 80 other people were injured in the attack Wednesday night on the general hospital in Mrauk-U township, an area controlled by the ethnic Arakan Army, an armed rebel group.

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