{"id":55773,"date":"2026-09-29T14:17:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55773"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:32:37","slug":"myanmar-airstrike-death-toll-rises-to-50-aid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/myanmar-airstrike-death-toll-rises-to-50-aid-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar airstrike death toll rises to 50: aid workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The death toll from a military airstrike in west Myanmar rose to 50 on Tuesday, two local aid workers at the scene said, the day after it struck a busy market.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say the military bombed the riverside commercial hub in Kyauktaw town, Rakhine state, around midday (0530 GMT) on Monday, when the initial death toll was reported at around 30.<br \/>\n&#8220;The death toll has reached 50, and 58 people were injured,&#8221; said aid worker Wai Hun Aung, warning the final fatality figure may be higher because some bodies were lost in fires following the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>A second local volunteer gave the same death toll, requesting anonymity for security reasons.<br \/>\nIt has not been possible to contact the Myanmar military for comment on the attack.<br \/>\nThe Arakan Army (AA) &#8212; a local ethnic rebel force controlling the area &#8212; earlier on Tuesday said the number of fatalities reached 49 with 58 more wounded &#8212; 22 in critical condition.<br \/>\nThose killed were &#8220;innocent passersby, market vendors, shoppers and cargo loaders&#8221;, a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The market and adjacent bridge hit in Monday&#8217;s bombardment had become a hive of trading activity since civil war broke out in Myanmar following a 2021 military coup.<\/p>\n<p>Rakhine has suffered some of the direst conditions in the war, largely cut off from the rest of Myanmar, and the market thrived on a river trade route to India, which had become a lifeline.<br \/>\nThe AA control almost all of Rakhine, save for a few urban centres still defended by the military wielding a fleet of fighter jets manufactured by Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>The air wing is also accused of committing atrocities targeting civilians at schools, monasteries and religious festivals &#8212; attacks rights groups say may constitute war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half-a-million people are living displaced in Rakhine as a result of the conflict, UN data says.<br \/>\nMore than 100,000 people have been killed in Myanmar in conflict since the 2021 putsch unseated Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s elected government, according to conflict monitor ACLED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from a military airstrike in west Myanmar rose to 50 on Tuesday, two local aid workers at the scene said, the day after it struck a busy market. Witnesses say the military bombed the riverside commercial hub in Kyauktaw town, Rakhine state, around midday (0530 GMT) on Monday, when the initial death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55775,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55773\/revisions\/55775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}