Key facts
- At least 15 people were killed in Myanmar military strikes over a weekend, including a newborn, per an ethnic armed group, an aid worker and monitors.
- The report said strikes hit a maternity clinic in Rakhine state and a school in Kayah state; it gave no breakdown of deaths between the sites.
- The same parties said the military-backed government is escalating a campaign to retake territory, in a civil war that has displaced more than 3.5 million people.
A newborn baby was reported among at least 15 people killed in Myanmar military strikes over a weekend, including a strike on a maternity clinic in Rakhine state, according to an ethnic armed group, an aid worker and rights monitors. The report did not give the date of the strikes or the date it was published. It also reported a strike on a school in Kayah state.
The same parties said the strikes came as the military-backed government escalates its campaign to retake territory lost to resistance groups in a civil war that has displaced more than 3.5 million people. The report gave no breakdown of where the 15 deaths occurred, and none of the figures has been independently verified.