Eleven killed as Myanmar protesters ‘fight soldiers with rifles’
Al Jazeera
Local media say residents of northwest town used guns, knives, firebombs as security forces attempted to quell protests.
At least 11 people have been killed in a northwestern town in Myanmar, local media reported, as security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters who fought back with hunting rifles and firebombs. The Myanmar Now and Irrawaddy news sites said on Thursday that six truckloads of troops were deployed to quell a huge protest in the town of Taze on Wednesday. When the protesters fought back with guns, knives and firebombs, five more truckloads of troop reinforcements were brought in.
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