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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Myanmar military claims armed opposition groups used hospital hit by airstrike as base

Myanmar Conflict - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Myanmar’s military on Saturday acknowledged there was an airstrike on a hospital in the western state of Rakhine, which a local rescuer and media reports said killed over 30 people, including patients, medical workers and children.

In a statement published by the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper, the military’s information office said armed groups, including the ethnic Arakan Army and the People’s Defense Force, pro-democracy militias formed after the army takeover in 2021, used the hospital as their base.

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