Nearly 40 killed in Myanmar junta attack on religious festival

A Myanmar military strike on a festival event and protest killed 40 people, including children, an attendee, and a local committee member said on October 7. Myanmar has been reeling from civil war since the military seized power in a 2021 coup, prompting pro-democracy rebels to take up arms and ally with ethnic armed groups against the junta. Hundreds of people were gathered in central Myanmar’s Chaung U township for the Thadingyut full moon festival on Oct. 6 evening when the military dropped bombs on the crowd, according to a member of the committee that organized the event. The woman,…

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