BY PC Bureau
On Saturday, a junta warplane dropped two bombs on a district hospital in Kyaukme, northern Shan State. The facility, controlled by the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), was heavily damaged. Three people were killed, including two female public health workers who had joined the civil disobedience movement after the 2021 military coup, The Irrawaddy reported.
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A male patient died while being evacuated, and at least 20 other locals receiving treatment at the hospital sustained serious injuries.
Two people were killed and more than 20 others were injured by airstrikes carried out by the Burma Air Force on a public hospital in Kyaukme, northern Shan State, on Saturday. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #Shanstate
Read more: https://t.co/hfHySWRgi0 pic.twitter.com/h3nTaVyc2F— DVB English News (@DVB_English) January 27, 2025
“The bombs landed at the back of the room where we were having a meeting,” a surviving health worker told The Irrawaddy. “My two female colleagues died instantly. I was nearly trapped under the debris. Many others were critically injured, some with broken bones.”
When The Irrawaddy visited the hospital after the airstrike, almost all its buildings had been flattened, indicating that the facility was deliberately targeted.
Kyaukme fell under TNLA control last August during the second phase of the Brotherhood Alliance’s Operation 1027. In response to the attack, Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government’s Health Ministry and the central executive committee of the Palaung State Liberation Front/TNLA issued statements condemning the strike.
The violence continued on Sunday, when a junta bombing and strafing attack killed 17 people in Singup village, rural Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region.
The Myanmar military killed 19 people including 14 members of an insurgent militia in an air attack on a rebel position, the militia said, as the junta presses on with operations aimed at recovering territory it lost last year.#Myanmar https://t.co/CjtjMQZCWO
— Radio Free Asia (@RadioFreeAsia) January 27, 2025
A junta jet dropped two bombs at around 7:30 a.m., followed by Mi-35 gunships strafing the village, particularly near the school, according to residents.
“Sixteen people were killed instantly, and another died later. Some of the wounded are in critical condition,” a local resident said.
Among the dead were a visiting couple and their two children—one an infant, the other four years old. “They have been buried,” the resident added.
The airstrikes occurred just days after pro-junta Telegram channels alleged that People’s Defense Force (PDF) groups were active near the village, residents said.
