Bangkok:  Ten civilians were killed by a military airstrike on a village in Myanmar on Wednesday, according to locals and media reports.
Since a coup in 2021, fighting has wracked large portions of Myanmar, with the junta fighting against ethnic rebels and dozens of new "People's Defence Forces" all over the nation.

Rights organisations charge the military with extrajudicial killings, demolishing villages, and using airstrikes to punish its foes all at once. According to Ko Zaw Tun, a local anti-coup fighter, a military jet dropped three bombs on Nyaung Kone village in the northern Sagaing region on Tuesday afternoon.
He claimed that there were ten fatalities and eight injuries.

There was no fighting, but they came to bomb the village instead, he added, noting that the attack had destroyed 11 homes. The strike claimed the lives of ten people, according to a Nyaung Kone resident.

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He claimed that later that evening, he and other locals had cremated the deceased out of fear of retaliation. We were unaware of the military's upcoming strategy. So, as soon as we could, we simply held their funerals, he said.

The airstrikes were covered by BBC Burmese and other local media, with some outlets reporting nine fatalities.Images from local media showed individuals attempting to put out ash and debris that were on fire as well as a sizable building in ruins

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Reporters for AFP's digital verification service verified that the images had not been posted online prior to Tuesday.

The military is battling to stifle opposition to its rule more than two years after its coup. Experts say it is using air power and artillery strikes to combat fierce ground opposition.

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The United Nations reported in March that the military had conducted more than 300 airstrikes in the previous year.
One of the focal points of anti-junta resistance is now Sagaing.

The military bombed a gathering in Sagaing in April, killing, according to the media and locals, about 170 people. This prompted renewed international criticism of the isolated junta.