An airstrike in central Myanmar kills up to 22 people at a bombed school, reports say | World News

An airstrike Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central Sagaing region hit a school on Monday, killing as many as 20 students and two teachers, according to a member of a resance group, an aid worker and media reports.ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO
The morning attack on Ohe Htein Twin village in the region’s Tabayin township, also known as Depayin, also wounded dozens of students, they said. Neither the military government nor state-controlled media have released information about the reported airstrike.
The military has increasingly used airstrikes to counter a widespread armed struggle against its rule, which began in February 2021 when it seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. More than 6,600 civilians are estimated to have been killed security forces since then, according to figures compiled nongovernmental organizations.
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A member of the White Depeyin People’s Defence Force resance group fighting against army rule told The Associated Press that a fighter jet dropped a bomb directly onto a school, where many students from primary to high school levels were studying after 9 a.m. The area is about 115 kilometers (70 miles) northwest of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city.
EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT- Bodies of victims, killed in an alleged hit a military airstrike, are laid on the ground in Ohe Htein Twin village in Tabayin township, also known as Depayin in Sagaing region, Myanmar. (AP)
The resance fighter, who rushed to the site of the attack to help the victims, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was afraid of being arrested the military. He said that 20 students and two teachers were killed in the attack on the school, which is operated the country’s pro-democracy movement, and about 50 others were wounded. Three near houses were damaged. He also said that there had been no recent fighting in the area, though Sagaing is a stronghold of the resance.
Nay Phone Latt, a spokesperson for the opposition’s National Unity Government, told the AP that he received the same information on the number of casualties, and that the death toll could rise. The organization is the main opposition group coordinating resance to military rule. He accused the military of deliberately attacking civilians in monasteries, refugee camps, schools and hospitals, with the excuse that resance fighters were sheltering at such sites, though this was not the case and the bombings were intended to alienate the people from the resance movement.
The death tolls from Monday’s bombing reported independent Myanmar media ranged from 17 to more than 20. A volunteer in Tabayin assing displaced people who asked not to be identified because of fear of government reprisals said he received the information from the ground that 12 students were confirmed dead and around 30-50 others were wounded.Story continues below this ad
Sagaing region, near the border with India, has been a stronghold of armed resance, and the military in recent years has stepped up airstrikes against the local pro-democracy People’s Defense Forces. The resance has no effective defense against air attacks.
In September 2022, aerial attacks the military’s helicopters against a school and village in Let Yet Kone village in the same township, killed at least 13 people, including seven children.
Airstrikes in April 2023 airstrikes killed as many as 160 people, including many children, who were attending a ceremony held opponents of army rule outside Pazigyi village in Sagaing region’s Kanbalu township.
Airstrikes in Myanmar garnered increased attention recently when numerous reports deemed credible the United Nations and human rights groups said that they continued to be carried out in the wake of Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake, after which the military and resance groups declared ceasefires to facilitate relief efforts.