NEW YORK: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday called for an investigation into an air strike on a hospital in Myanmar that killed at least 30 people, including patients. Volker Turk said such attacks may amount to a war crime. More than 70 people were also injured in the attack which had been blamed on the country's ruling junta. The hospital is located in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, which is largely controlled by the rebel Arakan Army.

An air attack by Myanmar’s military government has hit a hospital in Rakhine state, killing at least 30 people.

MRAUK: A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, an on-site aid worker said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections…

The junta has stepped up bombardments by air in an attempt to reclaim territory from ethnic armies.

The attack targets a 300-bed hospital in western Rakhine state as the government intensifies its offensive there.

The air force of Myanmar's military junta killed at least 33 civilians and injured scores more after it bombed a hospital in rebel-held territory.

NEW YORK: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday called for an investigation into an air strike on a hospital in Myanmar that killed at least 30 people,…

YANGON: Myanmar’s military junta denied on Saturday killing civilians in a hospital air strike that left more than 30 people dead. A military jet bombed late Wednesday the general…

Witnesses at the hospital and the UN say the attack killed medics, patients and may 'amount to a war crime'.