They denounce the death of eleven children after an attack on a school in Burma

Sep. 19 (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least eleven children have died after a bombing carried out on a school located in the Burmese region of Sagaing, in the north of the Asian country, according to local sources who blame the attack on the military junta that has governed Burma since February 2021.

According to sources consulted by the newspaper ‘The Irrawaddy’, critical of the junta, two regime helicopters attacked a religious education center in the town of Tabayin on Saturday. Initially, seven minors died, while more than 31 people were injured, including students and teachers.

The sources consulted have reported that two other children lost their lives when troops loyal to the junta burst into the town and have assumed that two of the injured minors died in hospital, since the authorities buried nine bodies in total. .

The soldiers burned the bodies and took them more than ten kilometers away, supposedly to hide the evidence. According to ‘The Irrawaddy’, the authorities justified the bombing of the school by arguing that armed militiamen were hiding inside.

The junta maintains a fierce repression of dissent in Burma and, since the coup, is considered responsible for some 2,300 deaths, according to the Association for Assistance to Political Prisoners of Burma (AAPP).

The government has imposed a nightly curfew — from 00:00 to 04:00 — in the capital, Naiypido, and has banned gatherings of more than four people, citing national security reasons.