BANGKOK: Myanmar’s military government on Thursday acknowledged attacking a religious festival held on the grounds of a school in central Myanmar, which witnesses said killed about two dozen people, including children, when improvised bombs were dropped by motorized paragliders.

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

Hundreds of people were gathered in Myanmar's Chaung U township for a festival on Monday evening when the army dropped bombs on the crowd. Photograph shows an airstrike in January.