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Civilians, children killed as Myanmar air force conducts daily bombing raids in Sagaing Region

Regime forces attacked villages across four townships in the region, where the anti-junta resistance has remained strong and the publicly mandated National Unity Government is preparing to open administrative offices

Myanmar’s military regime has increased aerial attacks in territories lost to anti-junta armed groups, causing at least seven civilian deaths in Sagaing Region since the second week of January, according to locals and emergency response workers. 

The junta air force struck the towns of Khampat, Tamu Township  and Maw Luu, Indaw Township on the night of January 16 before attacking Kalay and Tigyaing over the following few days. 

In Tone Lone village, located some eight miles east of Tigyaing across the Ayeyarwady River, the air force carried out an attack around 2am on Monday, killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring an 11-year-old girl. 

The junta has suppressed reports about airstrikes and has not responded to the claims about children being killed. 

A local volunteer assisting displaced people said that junta forces control the urban wards of Tigyaing, while resistance. . .

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