Dozens killed and injured in military attack on Myanmar refugee camp | Military News

The camp close to the Chinese language border homes hundreds of individuals displaced by a long time of battle.

Dozens of individuals, together with youngsters, have been killed and injured in a navy raid on a camp for internally displaced folks in northern Myanmar close to the border with China.

Native media reported that the camp, close to the city of Laiza in Kachin state, was hit late on Monday night time.

The camp is just a few kilometres from the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army, which is concerned in a decades-long battle with the Myanmar navy.

At the least 32 folks had been killed, together with 13 youngsters, Khit Thit information company reported. The Kachin Information Group stated greater than 30 folks had been killed within the assault. A 3-month-old child was among the many useless, in response to the Myitkyina Information Journal.

Images on social media confirmed rescuers retrieving our bodies within the darkness and piles of bamboo and different particles.

Writing on X, beforehand referred to as Twitter, Aung Myo Min, the human rights minister of the Nationwide Unity Authorities (NUG), condemned the assault as a “struggle crime”. He stated some 56 folks had been injured. The NUG was established by democratically-elected politicians faraway from workplace within the coup.

The KIA’s Colonel Naw Bu stated the armed group was investigating what sort of strike had hit the camp.

“We didn’t hear any plane,” he instructed the AFP information company, saying they had been trying into whether or not the navy had used a drone within the assault.

Myanmar was plunged into disaster in February 2021 after the navy seized energy in a coup triggering a widespread revolt towards its rule. Violence has engulfed huge swathes of the nation of 53 million folks with the navy accused of the indiscriminate use of air raids, artillery shelling and arson forcing lots of of hundreds from their properties.

In October final yr, military air raids on a KIA-organised competition in Kachin killed at the very least 60 folks.

Kachin officers and troopers, musicians, jade-mining enterprise house owners and different civilians had been among the many useless.