# Deadly airstrike hits Buddhist monastery in Myanmar

https://mins.news/en/video/28841

- DW News, 2026-08-21 20:30 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UONSmQwacqE

> An opposition group says a Myanmar military airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Swel Le Oh village killed more than a dozen people attending a meditation retreat and wounded many others. The strike is the latest in a series of frequent, deadly aerial attacks supposedly aimed at pro-democracy forces and ethnic armed groups but often harming civilians.

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