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…