Junta bombs leave village in ruins


A junta air strike killed at least 40 people in a village in western Rakhine state, a rescue worker and ethnic minority armed group said.

The Arakan Army (AA) is engaged in a fierce fight with the military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swathes of territory in the past year, all but cutting off the capital Sittwe.

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