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Troops fire at funeral as Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup

Troops fire at funeral as Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup

MYANMAR security forces opened fire at a funeral yesterday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since the military coup on February 1. Mourners fled the shooting at a service for 20-year-old student Thae Maung Maung in Bago near the commercial capital Yangon and there were no immediate reports of casualties, three people in the town told Reuters. "While we are singing the revolution song for him, security forces just arrived and shot at us," a woman called Aye who was at the service said.…
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