Buddhist monk and a child reported among almost a dozen civilians killed in Myanmar airstrikes

Tuesday's attacks on Nyaung Kone and Kyarsi villages in Pale township in Sagaing region, also wounded about a dozen people, they said.

The military-installed government has been conducting major offensives in the countryside, including Sagaing, to try to secure territory by burning villages and carrying out airstrikes. The resistance forces have no defence against air attacks. In both those cases, the military government claimed that the members of the pro-democracy People's Defence Forces, the armed wing of the National Unity Government, were their targets.

The villager said that a 55-year-old Buddhist monk and eight civilians, including two women, were killed on the spot, and a 16-year-old girl, who was his niece, died later that day. He said he was taking shelter under a table at his house about 275 metres from the monastery when the attack took place.

Photos of the devastation that circulated on social media were said to show a damaged monastery building and the bodies of a monk and another person among the debris. Their veracity couldn't immediately be independently confirmed.

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