A Myanmar military air strike on the Byar La IDP camp in Ponnagyun township, Rakhine, killed 12 people including a five-year-old, witnesses and a rescue worker said. Eighteen others were injured in the Friday evening attack, which residents said hit a camp they believed was safe.
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All I saw was their bodies scattered in pain. I could not find words to describe it. And we were lost with crying,
It has broken our family. There were no others except my family. We did not hear the sound of the fighter jet — it just came and dropped the bombs.
They believed the camp was safe, and they sheltered there together. When we arrived at the scene, most of the victims had died in one place,
We never thought this camp would be targeted.
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A Myanmar military air strike on a camp housing people displaced by the civil war killed 12 people in the westernmost state of Rakhine, witnesses and a rescue worker said on Saturday.
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Khine Hein Htet said a five-year-old was among the dead, while 18 were also injured in the camp, where many residents had been living for four years.
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The ACLED monitor estimates that more than 100,000 people have been killed in Myanmar on all sides since the civil war began.
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