‘Why do they attack the children?’


Immense loss: Villagers transporting the injured to a hospital after the school was allegedly hit by an airstrike by the military in Ohe Htein Twin village in Tabayin township. — AP

Ko Min said he found his son and daughter’s bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.

“One had no face and one’s body was cut. They were cuddling their books,” the 43-year-old said, speaking under a pseudonym.

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