Two NGO workers killed in massacre

Deadly attack: A file photo showing smoke and flames billowing from vehicles in Hpruso township, Kayah state, after the attack on Christmas Eve. — AP

Save the Children confirmed that two of its staff were killed in a Christmas Eve massacre of more than 30 people in Myanmar blamed on junta troops, leading the United States to press for an arms embargo.

Anti-junta fighters said they found over 30 burnt bodies, including women and children, on a highway in eastern Kayah state where pro-democracy rebels have been fighting the military.