Myanmar’s navy strikes village in glider raid, killing a minimum of 24 folks together with youngsters

Myanmar’s navy carried out a paraglider strike on a village that killed a minimum of 24 folks together with youngsters, and wounded greater than 50 others, based on a member of a resistance group, villagers and media experiences.

The Monday (October 7, 2025) evening assault was carried out by a motorised paraglider, and focused a village within the nation’s central Sagaing area that was celebrating a Buddhist pageant that included a rally calling for the discharge of political prisoners held by Myanmar’s navy authorities, the experiences stated.

Myanmar is in a civil struggle that started after the military seized energy in February 2021 from the elected authorities of Aung San Suu Kyi. Much of the nation, together with the village of Bon To village the place the assault befell, is underneath the management of resistance forces. The space is about 90 kilometres west of Mandalay, the nation’s second-largest metropolis.

“The sickening experiences rising from the bottom in central Myanmar following a nighttime assault late on Monday ought to function a grotesque wake-up name that civilians in Myanmar want pressing safety,” the human rights group Amnesty International stated in an announcement.

More than 100 folks from Bon To and close by villages had gathered on the village’s main faculty compound Monday night for an oil lamp lighting ceremony to mark the tip of Buddhist Lent and to name for the discharge of political prisoners together with Suu Kyi, stated a member of a neighborhood resistance group who attended the occasion.

A motorised paraglider dropped two bombs at about 7:15 pm, killing an estimated 20 to 40 folks, together with youngsters, villagers and members of native political activist teams and armed anti-military teams, stated the resistance fighter, who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on situation of anonymity to safeguard his private safety.

More than 50 others have been wounded, together with himself, he added.

The resistance fighter stated an alert had been issued by means of a community of cellphones and walkie-talkies that had tracked the paraglider from the military’s northwestern navy command in Monywa, about 25 kilometres north of Bon To village.

An area resident who additionally attended Monday’s (October 7) ceremony stated the group started to disperse after listening to experiences of an approaching paraglider, nevertheless it arrived prior to anticipated and dropped bombs whereas folks have been nonetheless within the faculty.

The resident, who helped in rescue efforts after the assault, stated a minimum of 24 folks have been recognized to have been killed, although the dying toll may very well be greater because the victims’ members of the family and rescue employees labored independently to gather the our bodies.

Both witnesses stated the paraglider returned to the scene round 11 p.m. and dropped two extra bombs with out inflicting further casualties.

The navy has not acknowledged finishing up an assault within the space. More than 7,300 persons are estimated to have been killed by safety forces because the military’s 2021 seizure of energy, based on figures compiled by nongovernmental organisations.

Myanmar’s navy additionally makes use of Chinese and Russian-made fight plane and helicopters, however since late final 12 months has stepped up the usage of low-tech motorized paragliders in what’s believed to partially be an effort to economize.

Resistance forces lack efficient defences towards any type of air assaults.