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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Military airstrike on schools in western Myanmar kills at least 18 people, most of them students

Myanmar Airstrike - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

An airstrike by Myanmar’s military on two private schools in a village in Myanmar has killed at least 18 people, most of them students, an armed group and local media reports said Friday.

More than 20 others were injured in the nighttime attack on the Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw township, the area controlled by the ethnic Arakan Army in the western Rakhine state, they said. The military has not announced any attack in the area.

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