At least 35 civilians, including ten children, were killed in nationwide junta airstrikes and shelling over the weekend, according to anti-junta groups.

Arakan Army reports Saturday’s bombing of detention center in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State killed 19 women and nine children.

BANGKOK: A Myanmar junta air strike killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group said on Sunday.

The Arakan Army is engaged in a fierce fight with the military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swaths of territory in the past year, all but cutting off the state capital Sittwe.

According to the reports, the Arakan Army is now marching ahead to take control of these weapons factories to further strengthen its military power.

An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group has killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity say.

Attack on village of Kyauk Ni Maw, in Ramree island township, kills more than 40 people and destroys about 500 homes.

A Myanmar junta air strike killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group said yesterday.

Myanmar junta airstrike kills 40 people and burns down 500 houses in Rakhine – reports - Strike on Arakan Army stronghold sparks massive fire

Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the United Nations said, as the Southeast Asia nation's civil war nears its fourth year.

The Myanmar air force has bombed a fishing village in Rakhine state killing 41 civilians and wounding 52, most of them Rohingya Muslims, residents involved in rescue work said on Thursday, in an attack insurgents condemned as a war crime.

China has much at stake. Its 771-kilometer oil and gas pipeline dissects Rakhine from its capital Sittwe through to Myanmar’s northern states and its security is behind speculation Beijing was prepared to put boots on the ground through a “joint security company” to be established with the military.