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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Grant Peck

Buddhist monk and a child reported among almost a dozen civilians killed in Myanmar airstrikes

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on two villages in the country’s north-central region this week killed nearly a dozen civilians, including a Buddhist monk and a child, according to villagers and the head of a local pro-democracy group on Thursday.

Tuesday’s attacks on Nyaung Kone and Kyarsi villages in Pale township in Sagaing region, also wounded about a dozen people, they said.

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