The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has expressed alarm over reports of Myanmar military air strikes this week that a rebel group and local media said inflicted large civilian casualties, as a civil war rages around the country. Paramotors dropped bombs on a village in the central Sagaing region on Monday and a fighter jet conducted an air strike in Rakhine state, 320 kilometers to the west of that incident a day later, killing at least two dozen people in total, Myanmar Now and the Irrawaddy reported.

Women and children among those killed in air strikes on a village market in Rakhine.

The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has expressed alarm over reports of Myanmar military air strikes this week that a rebel group and local media said inflicted large…