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Testimonies and rebel groups claimed that this would be one of the most deadly murders to have occurred in recent months of fighting and that Myanmar junta forces had killed 32 civilians hiding in monasteries.
Around 5 a.m. on Saturday, a group of coup soldiers entered Let Htoke Taw town in the northern Sagaing. The soldiers, evidently searching for health facilities for anti- coup insurgents, next trapped and slaughtered 32 civilians hiding in monasteries, they said.
Nway Oo, a member of the Myaung-based anti-junta Civil Defense and Security Organization, claimed that residents were shot and killed.
” The people were fleeing as the dictatorship forces were shooting, some persons were hiding in temples”, he said. ” All the people were ordered to lay down, and they were all shot dead.”
Thirty- one males and one female were killed, six individuals were wounded, a native said.
No details about the martial regime’s activities in the area have been made public. Telephone calls to junta director Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun and the Sagaing region director, Nyunt Win Aung, went unresolved.  ,
The massacre in Myinmu township was deemed a war crime by members of the National Unity Government ( NUG), which was founded by pro-democracy politicians and allies after the military brought the nation back into bloody tumult with its 2021 overthrow of an elected government.
The murder was blamed on the involvement of members of the pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia, about 70 junta soldiers from three mixed battalions, and the NUG, according to the NUG.
The death toll, if confirmed, may create it one of the bloodiest incidents in Myanmar’s latest round of conflict, which has brought extraordinary violence to key, heartland parts of the country occupied by the majority Burma neighborhood.  ,
In photographs, bodies were arranged in vehicle backseats and set up against the ground. The subjects were aged 15 to 60, the NUG said.
Troops even burned down town houses and abducted more than 20 citizens, including children and women, the NUG said.
RFA was unable to verify the deceased’s names. Three Wan Pyayt village masons were reportedly working on the monks ‘ dormitories, according to the village resident, who claimed three of the victims were among the victims.  ,
” There was no war, they were shot dead”, the tenant, who declined to get identified fearing violence, told Radio Free Asia.
Seven people were killed in an attack in Ma Gyi Oke town on Saturday in a coup attack in local Tabayin town, according to people and people of the anti-junta People’s Defense Force.
Four of the dead were anti- junta fighters, they said.
Residents claimed that civilian public administration organizations were treating insurgents at clinics that junta troops were using.  ,
