Twenty-three Rohingya residents were killed and 33 injured in an unprovoked bombing raid by the Myanmar junta in Minbya Township in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State on Monday (March 18).
A junta warplane dropped two bombs early Monday morning on Thardar Village, leaving 23 Rohingya residents dead, reports The Irrawaddy.
The Arakan Army is providing treatment for 18 people injured in the bombing raid. Fifteen others who sustained minor injuries are receiving treatment at rural clinics.
“One of them is in a critical situation. People are now filled with panic,” said a resident to the Irrawaddy.
Thardar Village houses over 2,000 Rohingya residents in 300 homes, with additional displaced individuals seeking refuge from nearby villages.
The regime has carried out frequent air and artillery strikes on Minbya town since the Arakan Army seized it on 6 February.
Junta battalions based in Sittwe shelled Minbya town at around 11 pm on 8 March, with shells landing on two villages."
