Junta airstrikes kill 4 civilians in Wetlet Township villages

Four civilians were killed and 13 others injured after junta aircraft bombed six villages on the east bank of the Ayeyarwady River in Wetlet Township, Sagaing Region.

The junta launched these deadly air raids over two consecutive days, September 9 and 10.

“The junta’s Y-12 aircraft carried out airstrikes starting from Kyaukmaung Village and hitting a string of villages all the way down to Mandalay Region. In Wetlet Township alone, 4 people were killed and 13 injured,” said Ko Nagarlay, an official from Wetlet Informational Network.

The casualties happened during the attacks on the evening of September 9.

On the evening of September 9, the junta’s Y-12 aircraft bombed Thitseint, Indaung, Yonepinkone, Minkone, Nabepinhla, and Tatthar villages. The following day, a fighter jet from Tada-U Airbase in Mandalay Region dropped a 300-pound bomb on a school in Thitseint.

“There were no casualties in the second day’s airstrike, when a fighter jet bombed the school in Thitseint Village,” Ko Nagarlay said.