Overview

• At least 23 civilians, including four children, were killed and about 30 others wounded when a fighter jet bombed the Lin Ta Lu monastery at around 1 a.m.
• The monastery had been sheltering roughly 200 people displaced by recent clashes between junta forces and pro-democracy fighters in Sagaing region.
• Medical teams and volunteers are conducting rescue and evacuation efforts amid the rubble of the destroyed monastery hall.
• The ruling State Administration Council has not responded to requests for comment on the attack, maintaining its usual silence over civilian deaths.
• The bombing is the latest in the junta’s intensifying air campaign against resistance-held areas, carried out despite a temporary ceasefire for earthquake relief and ahead of planned elections.