Myanmar’s military bombed a vehicle workshop in Sagaing Region’s Ye-U Township on Monday, killing seven civilians, according to local resistance forces.
On Monday afternoon, three gyrocopters and an Mi-35 helicopter from the regime’s Monywa-based Northwestern Regional Military Command bombed and then fired on the car workshop in Tinteinyan, a village about 10 miles west of the town of Ye-U, for about half an hour.
Resistance groups said that a customer and five men and a woman working at the shop were killed in the attack. At least five others from the surrounding area were injured.
The junta aircraft dropped at least 10 bombs on the area before opening fire with machine guns, a spokesperson for the Ye-U Township People’s Defense Organisation told Myanmar Now.
“The car workshop was not run by the resistance side. No battles had occurred at all and. . .
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