{"id":8471,"date":"2024-09-06T14:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2024-09-06T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:25:21","slug":"myanmar-ethnic-armed-group-says-11-civilians-killed-in-junta-air-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/myanmar-ethnic-armed-group-says-11-civilians-killed-in-junta-air-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar ethnic armed group says 11 civilians killed in junta air strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Myanmar military air strikes in northern Shan state killed 11 civilians and wounded 11 more, a spokeswoman for an ethnic minority armed group battling the junta told AFP on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They (the military) bombed at two areas in Namhkam&#8221; town on Friday around 1:00 am local time (1830 GMT), Lway Yay Oo of the Ta&#8217;ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) said.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes killed 11 and wounded 11, she said, adding that the office of a local political party had been damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Namhkam is around 5 kilometres (3 miles) from the border with China&#8217;s Yunnan province, with TNLA fighters claiming control of the town following weeks of fighting last year.<\/p>\n<p>Images on social media showed people sifting through rubble and carrying a young person who appeared to be wounded.<\/p>\n<p>One video showed several destroyed buildings. AFP reporters geolocated that video to a site in Namhkam and said it had not appeared online before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar military air strikes in northern Shan state killed 11 civilians and wounded 11 more, a spokeswoman for an ethnic minority armed group battling the junta told AFP on Friday. &#8220;They (the military) bombed at two areas in Namhkam&#8221; town on Friday around 1:00 am local time (1830 GMT), Lway Yay Oo of the Ta&#8217;ang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8471","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\/8471"}],"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=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8473,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions\/8473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}