Several Myanmar security forces injured in anti-coup protest | News
Witnesses say that several people were injured when security forces ran over protesters in Yangon.
Eyewitnesses and local media reported that several people were injured after Myanmar security forces rammed a car at an anti-coup demonstration in Yangon.
Sunday's protest was one of at least three held in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, and similar demonstrations were reported in other parts of the country a day ahead of an expected verdict in the first of several criminal cases against the country's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. . , who was overthrown in a military takeover on 1 February.
Anti-military protests have continued although more than 1,300 people have been killed since then coup. The scattered protests are often small groups expressing their opposition to the overthrow of the elected Suu Kyi government and the return of military rule.
Pictures and videos circulated on social media appeared to show a vehicle smashed between the demonstrators and the bodies lying on the road.
According to local media "Myanmar Now", at least five people were killed and 15 arrested. Witnesses told Reuters news agency that dozens of others were wounded.
"They increased their speed when they approached the demonstrators – it was as if they had run into them," a journalist told AFP, who declined to be named for security reasons.
He said a handful of people, some carrying banners in support of Aung San Suu Kyi, were injured and scattered on the ground while others fled the scene. "Then the soldiers jumped out of the car and started shooting," he added.
A protester, who was taking part in a demonstration against the military coup, kneels on the ground next to a soldier after his arrest. [AFP]
Witnesses said the "mob-quick" protest in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, was shocked minutes after it began.
"I was shocked and fell to the ground in front of a truck. A soldier hit me with his rifle but I defended and pushed him back. Then he fired at me immediately as I ran in a zigzag pattern. Luckily I escaped," a protester, who asked not to be named for security reasons, told Reuters by phone.
The opposition's shadow government said it was sad to see peaceful protesters crushed and shot to death.
"We will respond with force to the terrorist army that brutally and inhumanely killed peaceful protesters," the National Unity Government's Defense Ministry said in a statement on social media after Sunday's attack.
According to local media reports, five people were killed and at least 15 . arrested [AFP]
An army spokesman did not respond to calls seeking comment on Sunday.
Another protest was held in Yangon in the afternoon despite the violence in the morning.
The military previously said that the protesters who were killed were instigating the violence. It says it orchestrated the coup because the November elections won by Aung San Suu Kyi's party were rigged. The Electoral Commission rejected this assertion.
Wars with ethnic minority fighters in remote border areas in the north and east have intensified dramatically since the coup, displacing tens of thousands of civilians, according to United Nations estimates.
Aung San Suu Kyi, 76 faces Dozens of cases have been brought against her including incitement and violation of COVID-19 protocols.
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