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UN ‘deeply concerned’ over reports women and children killed in Myanmar

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CNN
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The United Nations says it is “deeply concerned” by reports that civilians, including
women and children, were killed and injured in a bombing at a camp for internally
displaced people in Myanmar.

At least 30 people, including 13 children, died and more than 50 were injured in the
attack on the camp near the country’s border with China on Monday, according to
Myanmar’s government-in-exile, the National Unity Government.

That would make it one of the deadliest attacks on civilians since military leader Min
Aung Hlaing seized control of the country in a coup more than two years ago, a move
that has since led to a mass displacement of civilians and spawned a resistance
movement across the Southeast Asian nation.

The bombing on Monday took place near the town of Laiza, in northern Kachin state.
Laiza is home to the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army, which has been
locked in a conflict with Myanmar’s military for decades.

The National Unity Government’s parliamentary wing, the Committee Representing the
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), has blamed the bombing on the junta, but the military’s
spokesperson Zaw Min Tun on Tuesday denied this and claimed instead that rebel
groups were behind the explosion.

The UN in Myanmar said Tuesday in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, that it was

“deeply concerned by initial reports from Kachin that civilians, including women and
children, have been killed and injured in a bombing that impacted an IDP (internally
displaced people) camp near Laiza last night.”