A growing number of families are grieving the loss of their sons and daughters in the resistance against Military rule in Myanmar.

The families of dozens of people killed in clashes between Myanmar security forces and anti-coup protesters held funerals on Tuesday after candle-lit vigils took place overnight as residents came out in defiance of a curfew.

Myanmar security forces shot dead at least 20 people on Monday in addition to the 74 killed a day earlier, including many in a suburb of Yangon where Chinese-financed factories were torched, according to advocacy group the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).

On Tuesday, a crematorium in Yangon reported 31 funerals, a mourner at one of the ceremonies told France 24 media.

Hundreds of young mourners crowded the street at the funeral of medical student Khant Nyar Hein who was killed in Yangon on Sunday, said to be the bloodiest day of the protests.

"Let them kill me right now, let them kill me instead of my son because I can't take it anymore," the student's mother said on a video clip put up on Facebook.

Protestors show no sign of backing down as the violence escalates in the wake of the February 1 Military coup.

Anti-coup protests continue in Myanmar as global alarm grows over intensifying violent crackdowns on demonstrators by security forces.

AAPP claims at least 184 people have been killed by the security forces in the weeks of protests, with the toll rising on Tuesday as one protester was shot dead in the central town of Kawlin, a resident there said.