Mizzima
The junta launched airstrikes on three consecutive days on Myebon Township in Rakhine State and badly damaged two hospitals between 22 and 24 March, despite there being no fighting in the area.
On 22 March airstrikes hit Nyaungkan Village in Myebon Township from 12:45 pm to 5:44 pm. The village monastery was destroyed and several monks suffered serious injuries. Approximately 20 houses in the village were also engulfed in flames.
On 23 March, between noon and 3 pm, the junta conducted airstrikes on the village hospital in Thayettaung Village, in Myebon Township resulting in one fatality and one injury, according to sources from Myebon Township.
On 24 March at 4:30 pm junta jet fighter targeted the public hospital in Kandaunggyi Town, Myebon Township. The attack caused considerable damage to the hospital and injured a woman.
A witness said: “The bombs were assumed to be 500-pound bombs as the impact was felt throughout the towns and villages despite the distance. The hospital night guard’s wife was injured.”
Residents speculated that the junta targeted these villages because they believed that resistance fighters were receiving medical treatment there.
“They bombed Thayettaung Village. Two jet fighters came at a time. They also bombed Nyaungkan Village with jet fighters on 22 March. It appears that the junta suspected that resistance fighters were receiving medical treatment in the villages, prompting them to carry out these attacks”, said a source from Myebon Township.
Making matters worse for residents there has been no electricity for over a month in more than 30 villages in Myebon Township.
