A Myanmar military airstrike on a school last week killed at least 19 students, an ethnic militia said, as the war-torn nation¡¯s ruling junta steps up a campaign to retake territory ahead of a planned election in December.
Children were killed and injured at the boarding school in Kyauktaw township in Myanmar¡¯s restive Rakhine state, the U.N. children¡¯s agency, UNICEF, said in a statement.
It did not say how many were killed in the incident, but the Arakan Army, a militia battling the military in the western state, said at least 19 people between the ages of 15 and 21 had died.
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