Myanmar junta attacks kill five in Magway’s Yesagyo Township

Assaults by Myanmar’s military killed at least five people, including a resistance fighter, in Magway Region’s Yesagyo Township this week, according to local sources.

On Thursday, a paramotor attack on a school in Mauk Ka Lan, a village about 11 miles south of the town of Yesagyo, left a 14-year-old boy dead and two others injured, the spokesperson for the township’s People’s Defence Team said.

“The boy died when bombs exploded near a school in the eastern part of the village,” said the spokesperson, adding that there was no fighting near the village at the time of attack.