チン州の村に爆弾投下：学校ひとつが壊滅

　チン州の Vuiluなる村にミャンマー軍の空爆。2発ほど爆弾を落とした、その一発が学校にクリーンヒットしたみたい。それで11名死亡、うち8名はこども。34歳の教師と、その母と子供たち3名も犠牲者の中に入る。

「According to accounts posted on social media by residents of Vuilu, a hilltop community of fewer than 80 households in the south of the state, military aircraft dropped at least two bombs on them on Wednesday evening.」

「The victims included 34-year-old teacher Ha Luang and his mother, as well as his three children.

The children killed were aged between seven and 11 years old. The bombs also damaged several other houses and the village's two churches.」

　死亡した子供たちは7から11歳。
　その周辺の家屋もダメージを受けたそうだが、そりゃ空軍の爆弾が降ればそうもなる。

BBC Myanmar: Eight children killed in military strike on school in Chin State 17 Nov 2023 By Jonathan Head

「Eleven people, including eight children, have been killed in Myanmar's Chin State after a military jet bombed a school, villagers say.

Locals say the strike on the remote village of Vuilu in the mountainous region happened on Wednesday.

Myanmar is currently in the grip of a civil war with numerous armed groups fighting the military junta which deposed an elected government in 2021.」

「This week, its grassroots insurgency saw ethnic Chin fighters recapture the town of Rikhawdar, on the border with India.」

　現場近辺はこれまで戦闘地域になったことはない様子。ところが近隣、アラカン州のアラカン軍が近くを回廊等々として利用していたようで―恐らくこれを、乃至この遮断を狙った攻撃なのだろう、というわけだ。

「However, one villager told the BBC that the Arakan Army, an ethnic insurgent group which recently resumed its armed campaign against central government forces in neighbouring Rakhine State, had been using a route through Vuilu to bring in reinforcements and supplies.」

　空軍―パイロットとその誘導係―の練度が問われるものではある。