At least six children are killed and 17 wounded when army helicopters shot at a school in Myanmar's Sagaing region, residents say
Images posted on social media showed what appeared to be damage including bullet holes and blood stains at a school building.
Some children were killed on the spot by the shooting, while others died after troops entered the village, the reports said. Images posted on social media showed what appeared to be damage including bullet holes and blood stains at a school building.In a statement, the military said the Kachin Independence Army, a rebel group, and the People's Defence Force , an umbrella organisation of armed guerrillas that the junta calls "terrorists", had been hiding in the monastery and using the village to transport weapons in the area.
It said security forces had responded and said some villagers had been killed in the clash and that the wounded were taken to public hospitals for treatment.
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