At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in an artillery strike on a displaced persons camp in north-east Myanmar, near the Chinese border.
The camp is located in an area controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), an insurgent group fighting the country’s ruling junta., a KIO spokesman told journalist that All the victims were civilians.
Kachin officials say the junta has scaled up attacks over the past year because of growing Kachin support for other insurgent groups fighting the military government.
Myanmar has been embroiled in conflict since a 2021 military coup displaced the country’s civilian government.