Three people, including a child, were killed in an airstrike on Wunkhom Village in Chin State’s Mindat Township on 8 July.

Junta jets dropped two bombs on the village at about 11:00 a.m., despite there not being any ongoing fighting in the area, according to a representative of the Mindat Chinland Defense Force (CDF-Mindat).

He said: “The junta’s bombing took the innocent lives of a 28-year-old woman, a 65-year-old elder and an 8-year-old child. A man also got injured.”

Ten houses and a school in the village of about 50 households were also damaged in the airstrike.

Junta Infantry Battalion 274 based in Mindat has also been regularly firing artillery into Wunkhom Village.

“There are no conflicts or military tensions in the area of the village. Despite the serious damage to the school no one was hurt because the airstrike happened on a Saturday. The Military Council carried out the airstrike for no reason”, said the CDF-Mindat representative.