Five civilians, including three children, killed in Myanmar junta midnight airstrike on Myaing Township

Mizzima

A junta airstrike on Kangyi village in Myaing Township, Magway Region, killed five civilians, including three children, during midnight sleeping hours, according to local revolutionary forces. More than 20 others were injured.

A member of the resistance forces said the strike occurred at around 12:10 am on 20 November, when a jet fighter from the Meiktila Shante Air Base dropped two 200-pound bombs on the village.

“There was no fighting at all. They deliberately bombed during sleeping hours. Many houses were hit. Three houses were completely destroyed,” the resistance member said.

At least 10 homes were damaged and over 20 villagers injured, with several in critical condition, according to local resistance groups.

Revolutionary forces reported that junta troops have recently been conducting patrols across villages in Myaing and Pauk townships and in areas between the two townships, followed by multiple air attacks.

“The column that left the Myaing Industrial Zone is likely to link up with the troops from Pauk and push back toward Myaing, as the Pauk column is heading northeast,” a resistance fighter said.

The Anyar Myay Tat Paung Su (Allied Forces of Central Myanmar) also released a statement saying the junta intentionally targeted the village centre and bombed it while residents were asleep.

Intensified troop movements by the junta since early November have triggered a major displacement crisis across Myaing and Pauk townships, forcing large numbers of civilians to flee.

The Anyar Myay Tat Paung Su warned that communities in the region are facing severe human rights violations, including aerial bombings and attacks by junta columns, arbitrary arrests and killings, looting, landmine contamination in villages, deaths due to illness and exhaustion during displacement, and the loss of children’s rights to education and safe living conditions.