Myanmar junta air strike on stranded convoy kills eight: residents


FILE PHOTO: Homes destroyed after airstrikes and shelling in Mung Lai Hkyet displacement camp in Laiza, Myanmar, October 10, 2023. - AP

YANGON: An air strike on a Myanmar civilian supply convoy trapped between junta troops and anti-coup rebels battling outside its second largest city killed at least eight people, two locals said Wednesday (Aug 13).

Myanmar's embattled military has increasingly deployed its air force to fend off the myriad of opponents facing it in a civil war it sparked with a 2021 coup, but civilian casualties are commonplace.

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