Myanmar junta attacks another school, killing two in Chin State’s Mindat Township

A woman and a boy were killed in an airstrike on a school in Chin State’s Mindat Township on Thursday, days after a similar attack left dozens dead in Sagaing Region earlier this week. A displaced man living in Mindat Township told Myanmar Now that the number of casualties was relatively low because the school, located in a village about 20 miles north of the township’s administrative centre, was not operating at the time of the assault. “Luckily, the school has been closed since Chin resistance forces launched their offensive to seize the town,” the man said, referring to the intensification of fighting that led to the capture of the town of Mindat by anti-regime groups late last year. The man identified the victims as “a mother in her 30s and a sixth-grade boy,” was unable to provide any further details. On Monday, a junta airstrike on a school in Sagaing’s Depayin Township killed 22 students and two teachers. More than 100 others were also injured, some critically, in the worst such attack in two years. At least 11 people were injured in Thursday’s attack in Mindat Township, which also destroyed at least 40 houses, according to a member of the township’s People’s Administrative Team. Video footage posted on Facebook shows several houses burning following the airstrikes. A building burns after being hit by an airstrike on a village in Chin State’s Mindat Township on May 15 (Photo: Supplied) There were also reports of bombs being dropped on another village in the area at around 9:30am on Friday. It was unclear at the time of reporting if there were any casualties from that attack. “The military has conducted aerial assaults over urban areas of Mindat before, but this is the first time they’ve bombed the rural parts of the township,” said the displaced Mindat resident. In April, junta airstrikes targeting the town of Mindat also hit a village about nine miles to the west, killing six civilians, including a pastor, a disabled man, and two children. The regime has also intensified its attacks in Rakhine State over the past week, conducting airstrikes in the north of the state that have killed at least 22 people since Monday. A series of strikes on the town of Kyauktaw that began on Wednesday killed at least 10 people over a two-day period, according to the Arakan Army (AA), which captured the town in February 2024. Following attacks on the town’s Ywarma Ward that left three women dead and five others wounded on Wednesday, the junta resumed bombing on Thursday, killing at least seven more residents of the same area, the group said. On Tuesday, another airstrike on the village of Htun Ya Wai in northern Rakhine’s Rathedaung Township killed 12 people, including a two-year-old girl. That attack was denounced by AA spokesperson Khaing Thukha as “a major war crime.”

Myanmar junta attacks another school, killing two in Chin State’s Mindat Township

The regime’s aerial assaults on resistance-held territories have killed dozen of civilians—many of them children—since Monday

Subscribe for full access

The shadowy past—and present—of the Myanmar Times and Frontier

On the road to Namtu

‘Can We Go Home?’: Civilians trapped in Bhamo fighting

Beyond Beijing’s reach, a new resistance alliance takes shape in Myanmar

Between resistance and the ballot box: Assessing the second phase of Myanmar’s junta-controlled elections

Pa-O authorities order 250 households off ancestral land in Southern Shan

Detained poppy growers to be recruited into Chin resistance force

Myanmar expels Timor Leste’s representative over war crimes case

Myanmar junta continues airstrikes on Union Day, killing seven in Rakhine State

Myanmar military moves to take last resistance-held town in Mandalay Region

KIA set to fully resume rare earth mining in captured ‘special region’

Myanmar junta airstrikes kill three civilians sheltering in Rakhine State monastery

Myanmar’s factories cling to life as power shortages persist

Bought Out or Seized: Mandalay farmers face impossible choices amid land grab

Myanmar junta partners with Chinese firm to build natural gas terminal despite Rakhine State conflict

Thai officials call on Myanmar regime to crack down on fraud, trafficking gangs on Thai-Karen State border

Myanmar military continues to lose ground to anti-junta forces in northern Shan State

Despite escalating violence, Myanmar junta leader says elections will proceed

NUG-founded bank set to sell shares to meet ‘emergency needs’

Myanmar’s junta bears ‘sole responsibility’ for Suu Kyi’s health—NLD

Karenni youth fight for freedom at the cost of their lives and limbs

The mothers of the Magway resistance

A Myanmar artist finds freedom behind bars—by portraying prisoners’ oppression

As Myanmar’s revolution beckons, a new breed of activist photographers heeds the call

The man behind the Myanmar junta’s campaign of terror in Sagaing

Authorities tighten restrictions on passport process for Myanmar nationals in Thailand

Subscribe for full access

Related Articles