18, mostly students, killed in Myanmar strike on Rakhine schools: armed group

Myanmar’s military has carried out an airstrike on two private schools in a village in western Rakhine State, killing at least 18 people, most of them students, according to local media and an armed group. Khaing Thukha, spokesperson for the Arakan Army (AA) that controls the area, told an international news agency on Friday that a jet fighter dropped two bombs on Pyinnyar Pan Khinn and A Myin Thit Private High School in the Thayet Thapin village in Kyauktaw township. He said most of the victims were “17- to 18-year-old students from the private schools”. Independent verification has been difficult, as internet and mobile phone access in the village remains largely unavailable, he added. “We feel as sad as the...