At least eight civilians, including three children, have been killed by junta airstrikes in Mandalay Region’s Natogyi Township since Monday, according to local residents and resistance forces.
The airstrikes came after anti-regime groups operating in the area launched drone attacks on junta troops stationed at a power substation and school in Pyin Si, a junta-controlled village near the Yangon-Mandalay highway, on Monday.
The first strike occurred later that same day, when two people were killed in Na Be Myit, a village about 12 miles northeast of the junta-controlled town of Natogyi, after a Korean language school in the village was hit at around 4:30pm.
This was followed on Tuesday with aerial attacks that killed an elderly woman and her 11-year-old grandchild in Kun Ohn, a village less than eight miles southwest of Natogyi.
A couple in Thu Htay Kone, a village about. . .
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