Myanmar junta airstrikes kill four, including two children, in Sagaing’s Pale Township

Mizzima

Four civilians, including two school-aged children, were killed and several others injured when the military junta carried out a deadly airstrike on Nwe Inn village in Sagaing Region’s Pale Township on 18 May, according to local resistance forces.

The attack occurred around 12:40 pm when two jet fighters dropped three bombs on the village, said Ko Nay Min, a logistics officer from Yinmarbin District Battalion 12 of the People’s Defence Forces (PDF). The bombs hit different sections of the village, one destroying a house near a dam in the east, another striking the village centre, and the third landing in the western part.

Among the dead were Hpone Min Thant, a sixth-grade student, and Ma Kyal Sin Oo, a twelfth-grade student. Two other adult civilians, Daw Mary and Ma Thin Myat Thu, also lost their lives. Six more villagers, including a two-year-old child, were wounded in the blast, with several in critical condition.