Junta airstrikes on a monastery and other civilian targets killed at least six including a monk and injured at least 15 on Sunday in a Karen State town captured by anti-junta forces last month, aid workers and local sources said.
The town—called Hpapun in Burmese—is within the administrative territory of Brigade 5 of the Karen National Union, which they call Mutraw District. According to the demarcation by a previous Myanmar government, which differs from the KNU’s structuring of its territory, Hpapun is the administrative centre of the township by the same name.
The airstrikes hit a monastery housing some 200 displaced civilians, killing a monk, three other men, and two women, according to members of the Free Burma Rangers, an international aid and emergency rescue organisation.
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