A junta airstrike struck a house in Kyaukphyu Village, Thabeikkyin Township, Mandalay Region, where a group of children were studying, killing one and injuring seven others.

On September 7, the junta targeted a house used as a classroom for a children’s study group in Kyaukphyu Township, which is under the control of resistance forces, the Mandalay People’s Defence Force (Mandalay PDF) announced.

“It was basically like a tuition class — a place where the children gathered to study. The airstrike hit it directly. One child was killed, and a teacher along with six other children were injured, seven in total. All the children there were under 10 years old. The junta’s aircraft didn’t just attack once — it bombed the place twice,” a Kyaukphyu villager told NMG.

Although Kyaukphyu Village is under resistance control, there were no active clashes in the area. Nevertheless, the junta carried out an unprovoked airstrike on the village.

The house was hit by the junta’s first airstrike around 2:00 pm on September 7, causing casualties, and was bombed a second time around 11:00 pm that night. The child killed in the bombing was 10 years old.

During the junta’s air raids on Kyaukphyu Village, around 10 miles south of Thabeikkyin Town on the Mandalay-Myitkyina Highway, bombs were dropped and machine-gun fire was unleashed, according to locals.

The Mandalay PDF accused the junta of repeatedly targeting non-military civilian sites, including villages, healthcare facilities, schools, and monasteries. It also condemned these indiscriminate attacks as war crimes and acts of low moral standards.