{"id":48689,"date":"2022-09-21T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T00:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/myanmar-junta-attack-on-school-condemned-as-child-death-toll-rises-to-11"},"modified":"2022-09-21T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T00:57:06","slug":"myanmar-junta-attack-on-school-condemned-as-child-death-toll-rises-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48689","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar junta attack on school condemned as child death toll rises to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres criticises airstrikes on Let Yet Kone, which junta claims were to target rebels hiding in the area<\/p>\n<p>At least 11 schoolchildren have died after an airstrike on a village in Myanmar, according to the United Nations children\u2019s agency, in what could be the deadliest attack on children since the <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/global-development\/2022\/feb\/01\/myanmar-coup-a-year-under-military-rule-in-numbers\">junta seized power last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres on Tuesday condemned the strike, according to his office, which stated that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/20\/myanmar-seven-children-killed-in-junta-strike-on-village-school\">death toll had climbed<\/a> to at least 13 people died, including the 11 students whose school was hit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/myanmar-junta-attack-on-school-condemned-as-child-death-toll-rises-to-11\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres criticises airstrikes on Let Yet Kone, which junta claims were to target rebels hiding in the areaAt least 11 schoolchildren have died after an airstrike on a village in Myanmar, according to the United Nations children\u2019s agen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,61,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48689\/revisions\/48690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}