Naypyidaw Myanmar January 8 ANI At least 15 people were killed this week in Myanmar military attacks in the country's Sagaing region including four siblings aged 5 -- 26 and one woman who died when a helicopter struck their home, a media report said.
The two Mi 35 attack helicopters launched six rockets and fired machine guns into Gahe village, part of Indaw township in Sagaing, a northwestern region that has been a hotbed of resistance to the military regime that overthrew Myanmar's elected government nearly a year ago, reports Radio Free Asia RFA. It was the first time that the Myanmar military targeted Gahe village by using heavy weapons, a local resident said.
She said that the village was a peaceful place and that the military attacked it for no reason.
"We used to go out and watch the planes when they passed by, but now we would not dare to do anything like that," he said. One of the helicopters shot explosive rockets at us and the other used a machine gun. Six rockets were fired into the village and five of them exploded. The helicopter attack killed four siblings, aged 5, 9, 13 and 26, and a 30-year-old woman.