Dozens of people were killed in the village of Pazi Gyi on Tuesday. located in the center of Burma, by an airstrike ordered by the military junta, an action condemned by the United Nations.

That is what the spokesman of the military junta, Zaw Min Tun, said tonight in the village of Pazi Gyi there was a ceremony to open an office of the People’s Defense Forces (pdf)the anti-coup armed groups.

“There was a ceremony to open the office (Tuesday) in the morning around 08:00 in Pazi Gyi village. We attacked the place,” the junta spokesman said.

The Burmese service of the BBC, The Irrawaddy And Radio Free Asia reported at least 50 dead and dozens injured in this attack in the Sagaing region, one of the main centers of resistance against the military.

The military spokesman stated that some of the dead could be anti-coup fighters in uniform, but that “there may be people in civilian clothes”.

“According to the information we have from the terrain, not only people died from our attack. There were some mines planted by the PDF in the area,” Zaw Min Tun said, adding that the attack hit a gunpowder storage facility and mines.

A lifeguard associated with the FDP’s anti-coup militias told the ep That there were women and children among the dead.

After recovering the bodies and transferring the injured to receive medical attention, he estimated the death toll at 100 people.

The United Nations offered no balance, but indicated that there were numerous civilian deaths. The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volter Türk, said he was “appalled” by the attack.

Myanmar has been torn by violent conflict between the military junta and its opponents since the February 1, 2021 coup that overthrew civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.