Myanmar air strike kills 14 praying at monastery, rebel witnesses say

A Myanmar military air strike on a monastery where civilians were gathered for a meditation retreat marking Buddhist Lent killed 14 people, two rebel fighters who witnessed the aftermath said. Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military staged a 2021 coup ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi

Around 100 people were attending a meditation retreat in central Myanmar when the building was targeted by military planes, witnesses said.

Myanmar has been consumed by civil war since the military staged a 2021 coup ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and detaining the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

The attack hit a monastery hall around 9am on Friday, killing 11 men and three women, according to a rebel fighter who witnessed the aftermath.

BANGKOK — An airstrike on Friday by Myanmar’s military on a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar’s central Sagaing region killed 14 people who were taking part in a weeklong meditation retreat, an opposition group and a resident said. The attack is the latest in a series of frequent and deadly aerial strikes targeting armed p

The strike took place in a village about 75 kilometres west of Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest cityFourteen people, including three women, were killed and 20 others injured when Myanmar's military carried out an air strike on a Buddhist monastery in the central Sagaing region, an opposition group and a villager said

The Myanmar military has dropped more bombs after a new UN report said it has increasingly used low-cost aircraft to kill civilians.

More than 100 people were in the monastery for a religious retreat, according to a local resident.

An opposition group and a resident say Myanmar’s military has conducted an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in the central Sagaing region, killing 14 people

The attack is the latest in a series of frequent and deadly aerial strikes targeting armed pro-democracy forces and ethnic armed groups in Myanmar.

Myanmar’s military has conducted an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in the central Sagaing region, killing 14 people, according to an opposition group and a resident