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Myanmar junta airstrikes on school and hospital leave dozens dead, injured

Children and healthcare workers were among at least 21 people killed in two separate attacks that took place over the weekend

At least 22 people were killed and dozens injured by regime airstrikes targeting a school and a hospital in resistance-held areas over the weekend, according to locals and anti-junta forces.

On Sunday, an assault on the village of Singut in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township left at least 12 resistance fighters and six civilians dead, sources said.

Three children, including a five-month-old infant, were among those killed when junta warplanes targeted the village school, which was being used as a base for local resistance forces, a defence team member told Myanmar Now on Monday.

“Only a few of the bodies we recovered were intact. The rest were just body parts and scattered flesh,” he said.

A junta fighter jet dropped two bombs on the school, which was then hit by multiple rounds of gunfire from an Mi-35 combat helicopter, he added.

“We lost four comrades. . .

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