Top election official shot dead in Myanmar

YANGON: The deputy head of Myanmar’s election commission was shot dead in Yangon on Saturday by rebel fighters, the military said. It is the latest killing of a high-profile individual linked to the country’s junta.

Myanmar civil war: Children perish as bombs rain on resistance

He didn’t think it was his village – Pa Zi Gyi in north-east Myanmar – that had been hit. But when he phoned his wife, he learnt that the military had bombed the place where villagers had gathered for a rare feast of curried noodles, rice and pork. Their seven-year-old daughter, Soe Nandar Nwe, had been among them.