Four civilians died when the junta launched two airstrikes on Nyaung Kan Village in Magway’s Saw Township at about 1:00 p.m. on 26 December.

The dead were named as Daw Saw Waing, age 65; U Zaw Min, age 46; U Zaw Htay Win, age 48; and U Kyaw Htay Lin, age 35, all were from Nyaung Kan Village.

Local villagers also told Mizzima that six more civilians were seriously injured in the airstrikes.

A Nyaung Kan villager said: “There was no fighting with resistance forces going on at the time. The military forces just mercilessly attacked civilians form the air.”

Six houses were also hit and damaged in the airstrikes.

A local news source said to Mizzima: “They launched an unexpected attack on a civilian area. They carried out airstrikes and fired machine guns. During the attack, four villagers were killed and six were injured. Six houses, I believe, were also destroyed.”

Saw People’s Defence force (PDF) Battalion 2 issued a statement on junta airstrikes saying that locals must watch out for junta drones and fighter jets and try to take cover in safe location