Family members of medical student Khant Ngar Hein, 18, grieve during his funeral in Yangon today.
In total, she said, the office had corroborated that a total of 149 people had died in the crackdown on protests since Feb 1, but stressed that the actual number was surely much higher. Much of the country has been in uproar since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi last month, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to demand a return to democracy.
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