On the afternoon of June 9, an army airstrike in Kawkareik Township, on the border of Mon and Karen States, killed three children, a teacher and a man in a house where children were studying in the village of Paing.
The Myanmar Military and Security Studies Institute (MDSI) said in a statement that the bomb dropped by the army on Paing was an internationally banned cluster bomb.
In addition, shell casings left around the site of the bombing were found to be MAB 26 C 6 Cluster Bombs, manufactured by the Military Council’s Defence Equipment Factory, KaPS 21.
A source on the ground in Paing told the BBC that in addition to the five deaths, another woman and six children were injured.
“The teacher died on the way to the hospital. The children were in grades two and three,” a source on the ground told the BBC.
According to a list provided to the BBC, the dead included two children aged seven and one aged eight.
The village is in the Kawkareik Township area of Karen State, but is not close to the fighting, the source said.
The military council has not yet commented on the airstrikes on the village.
Last week, the military also injured four students when its airstrikes hit a secondary school in the village of Kyi Le Su in Kawkareik Township.
Leave a Reply