BANGKOK
\nA Myanmar military airstrike on a village killed ten civilians, locals and media reports said on Wednesday.
\nFighting has ravaged swathes of Myanmar since a coup in 2021, with the junta battling ethnic rebels and dozens of new \u201cPeople\u2019s Defense Forces\u201d across the country.
\nRights groups accuse the military of extrajudicial killings, razing villages and using air strikes as collective punishment of its opponents.
\nA military jet dropped three bombs on Nyaung Kone village in the northern Sagaing region on Tuesday afternoon, according to Ko Zaw Tun, an anti-coup fighter from the village.
\nTen people were killed and eight wounded, he said.
\n\u201cThere was no fighting, but they came to bomb the village,\u201d he said, adding 11 houses had been destroyed in the attack.
\nA resident of Nyaung Kone also said that ten people had been killed in the strike.
\nHe and other locals had cremated the dead later that evening, he said, asking not to use his name due to fear of reprisal.
\n\u201cWe did not know what their (the military\u2019s) next plan is. So, we just held funerals for them as soon as we could,\u201d he said.
\nBBC Burmese and other local media also reported the air strikes, with some outlets saying nine people had been killed.
\nImages published by local media showed people working to douse smoldering debris and ash, and a large building in ruins.
\nAFP digital verification reporters confirmed the images had not appeared online before Tuesday.
\nMore than two years after launching its coup, the military is struggling to crush resistance to its rule.
\nBattling fierce opposition on the ground, experts say it is resorting to artillery strikes and air power.
\nThe military carried out more than 300 air strikes in the last year, the United Nations said in March.
\nSagaing has emerged as a hotspot of anti-junta resistance.
\nIn April, the military bombed a gathering in Sagaing that media and locals said killed about 170 people, sparking renewed global condemnation of the isolated junta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BANGKOK A Myanmar military airstrike on a village killed ten civilians, locals and media reports said on Wednesday. Fighting has ravaged swathes of Myanmar since a coup in 2021, with the junta battling ethnic rebels and dozens of new \u201cPeople\u2019s Defense Forces\u201d across the country. Rights groups accuse the military of extrajudicial killings, razing villages […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-340489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n