![]() ![]() In the incident, a "flash mob" protest in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, was rammed minutes after it started. "We will strongly respond to the terrorist military who brutally, inhumanly killed the unarmed peaceful protesters," the National Unity Government's defence ministry said in a statement on social media after Sunday's attack. The opposition's shadow government said that it was heartbroken to see peaceful protesters being attacked and shot to death. The scattered protests are often small groups voicing opposition to the overthrow of an elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the return of military rule. Photos and videos on social media show a vehicle that crashed through the protesters and bodies lying on the road.Īnother protest was held in Yangon in the afternoon despite the morning violence.Īnti-military protests are continuing despite the killing of more than 1,300 people since the Feb 1 coup. Witnesses on the scene told Reuters dozens had been injured. Five people were killed and at least 15 arrested after Myanmar security forces in a car rammed into an anti-coup protest on Sunday (Dec 5) morning in Yangon, local news portal Myanmar Now reported.
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