Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Airstrikes by Myanmar's military government killed at least 33 patients and staff and injured 76, many of them critically, at a public hospital in Rakhine State in the west of the country, ahead of elections on Dec. 28.
Two 500-pound bombs were dropped in the attack on Wednesday night on the town of Mrauk-U in a region controlled by ethnic Rakhine rebels of the Arakan Army, one of a number of minorities fighting the repressive regime in Naypyidaw.
Images and footage circulating online of the aftermath and on Thursday morning show dozens of bodies, fierce fires, a large crater, one building completely destroyed and a second gutted and trees uprooted by the blast.
Arakan Army spokesman Khine Thu Kha noted that the attack came on International Human Rights Day.
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