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Military
Myanmar government refutes story of school bombing
Saturday, May 17, 2025
PanOrient News
YANGON: Myanmar’s government has refuted stories that one of its aircraft bombed a school at O Htein Twin village school in Sagaing Region.
Media reports claim that 22 people – 20 children and two teachers – died in the alleged bombing, but the Myanmar government says this is fake news and the information reported is inconsistent and inaccurate.
Initially, the reports said that the school was hit with a bomb from a Myanmar fighter aircraft, but a retired military ordnance and explosives expert told PanOrient News that the standard airforce bombs weigh 500lbs or 1000lbs and would have obliterated the small wood-framed school building, most of which remains standing. No bomb crater was found at the site.
The National Unity Government then changed the story to say that the munition used was a cluster bomb that came in through the ceiling while a class was in session. The expert also doubt this possibility as a standard cluster bomb would break up in mid-air and send over 200 bomblets over a wide area of up to 7 acres.
Myanmar’s government says members of the rebel People’s Defense Force were teaching some of the local students how to make improvised explosive devices when an accident occurred.
They also point out that it is the summer holiday season for schools, so no normal classes were taking place. The government says media people in Mae Sot know what really happened there but are out to blame the Myanmar government.The purpose of false reports, say the government, is to try and stop the supply of jet fuel to Myanmar.
A photo of children’s bags outside the “bombed out” school are said to be those of the victims, but they seem unusually clean for a supposed bombing.
One of the photos supplied by the National Unity Government was evaluated as 100 percent fake by an online AI image checker. Another of the photos supposedly of a dead boy shows him with his eyes open and his body turned, as if he is awake. The bags in another photo are said to belong to the children, so why haven’t they been returned to the children or their parents. For bags that have reportedly been in a bomb attack, they are surprisingly clean and intact.
(Photos: Supplued)
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