Dozens killed in junta airstrike on Myanmar celebration, deadliest attack since coup

By Brady Knox

Published October 24, 2022 6:41pm ET

Dozens killed in junta airstrike on Myanmar celebration, deadliest attack since coup — In this March 17, 2018, photo, a Kachin Independence Army fighter walks along a jungle path from the Mu Du front line toward Hpalap outpost in an area controlled by the Kachin rebels in northern Kachin state, Myanmar. A government air strike on a KIA/KIO celebration killed dozens of people, most of them civilians, in the deadliest single action since the military coup in February 2021. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan, File)

A government airstrike on a celebration among the Christian Kachin people in Myanmar killed dozens of people, mainly civilians, according to Kachin sources.

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