Myanmar army helicopters fire on school, killing six

At least six children were killed and 17 wounded when army helicopters shot at a school in Myanmar, media reports and residents said on Monday, as the military said it opened fire because rebels were using the building to attack its forces.

Myanmar’s military junta on Tuesday admitted striking the school in the central Sagain Region, but rejected the accusations made by the country’s pro-democracy shadow government, known as the National Unity Government (NUG), that it had killed children during the strike last Friday.

A spokesperson for the military said government forces entered the village of Let Yet Kone to clear rebel “terrorists” and accused the Kachin Independence Army, a rebel group, and the People’s Defence Force (PDF), an umbrella organization of armed guerrillas, of using children as “human shields.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/asia/myanmar-army-junta-helicopter-school-attack-intl-hnk/index.html