Myanmar’s military killed more than 30 people in an airstrike on a hospital, an aid worker said Thursday, as the junta ramps up a blistering campaign ahead of elections slated for later this month.
Rights groups and conflict monitors say the junta has intensified air attacks every year since plunging the country into civil war with its 2021 coup, which ended a decade-long experiment with democracy.
The military plans to begin polls on Dec. 28 – marketing the vote as a path out of conflict – but rebel groups have vowed to block balloting in areas they control, where fierce clashes continue as the junta fights to regain ground.
Aid worker Wai Hun Aung said a military jet bombed the general hospital in Mrauk-U, a historic town in western Rakhine state near the Bangladesh border, on Wednesday evening.
This picture shows a hospital damaged in a Myanmar military air strike that killed more than 30 people at a hospital, Mrauk U, Myanmar, Dec. 11, 2025. (AFP Photo)
