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At least 16 people have been killed in a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar in an airstrike by the military junta. Around 50 others were injured in the attack on Thursday morning in the Magwe region in the centre of the country, an eyewitness who was also involved in the rescue work told dpa on Friday. The military had attacked just after a meeting had taken place in the monastery in the Saw community. Members of the local defence forces, who are resisting the junta, and several village chiefs from surrounding villages took part in the meeting. According to the information, the number of dead could…

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