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An airstrike in central Myanmar kills up to 22 people at a bombed school, reports say

An airstrike in central Myanmar kills up to 22 people at a bombed school, reports say

Witnesses and independent media reports say that an airstrike by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central Sagaing region has hit a school

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