The Myanmar air force bombed Lashio, northern Shan State on Tuesday, killing a civilian and damaging hotels and houses in the last of a four-day series of deadly airstrikes in the state, local sources said.
Residents of Lashio—northern Shan State’s most populous city—said warplanes conducted two rounds of airstrikes in the predawn hours, the first at around 1:30am and the second at 4am.
“Two hotels in Ward 2 were hit by the first round airstrikes. The second round damaged several houses,” a Lashio resident said.
The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the ethnic armed organisation that has held control of the town since August 3, has not issued a statement providing casualty figures at the time of reporting.
However, local media outlets claimed that one woman was killed and at least a dozen other civilians were injured in the. . .
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