Myanmar's military is accused of bombing a displacement camp in a northern state, killing about 30

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Col. Naw Bu, a spokesperson for the Kachin Independence Army, said 29 people including 11 children under the age of 16 were killed and 57 others injured in the attacks carried out by air and artillery late Monday.

The casualties occurred at the Mung Lai Hkyet displacement camp in the northern part of Laiza, a town where the headquarters of the rebel KIA is based, about 324 kilometers (200 miles) northeast of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-biggest city.

The military government in the past year has stepped up the use of airstrikes in combat against two enemies: the armed pro-democracy Peoples Defense Forces, which formed after the 2021 takeover, and ethnic minority guerrilla groups such as the Kachin that have been fighting for greater autonomy for decades.

A spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres expressed alarm at the reports of killings and said he “condemns all forms of violence, including the military’s intensifying attacks throughout the country, which continue to fuel regional instability.”

Myanmar’s National Unity Government, the main nationwide opposition group that considers itself the country’s legitimate administrative body, said a kindergarten, school, church and many civilian houses were destroyed at the camp.

It was impossible to independently confirm details of the attack, though media sympathetic to the Kachin posted videos showing what they said was the aftermath, with images of dead bodies and flattened wooden structures.

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