‘It was her spirit’: Myanmar teen shot by police was determined to protest coup


  • World
  • Thursday, 11 Feb 2021

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB A banner pictured in Yangon on February 10, 2021, shows a woman protester injured by a gunshot wound in the head when police fired to clear protesters on February 9, 2021 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. REUTERS/Stringer

(Reuters) - Myanmar teenager Mya Thwate Thwate Khaing was supposed to be celebrating her 20th birthday on Thursday.

Instead, she is fighting for her life in a hospital in the capital Naypyitaw after she was shot in the head when police cracked down on a protest against the military coup.

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