Two civilians killed, eight injured in Mrauk-U airstrike, AA says

By Admin 13 Nov 2026

DMG Newsroom

13 November 2026, Mrauk-U

Two civilians were killed and eight others, including a seven-year-old child, were injured in a Myanmar military airstrike on Mrauk-U town in western Myanmar's Arakan (Rakhine) State on November 12, according to the Arakan Army (AA).

In a statement issued on November 13, the AA said a military fighter jet dropped two bombs on Kyet Zay Ward, a residential neighbourhood in Mrauk-U, at approximately 8:49 p.m.

The bombing also damaged a school building and several religious structures, the AA said.

Local sources contacted by DMG separately reported two civilian deaths and at least six injuries. Two of the injured were in critical condition and receiving emergency medical treatment, according to residents.

"There was a loud explosion. The bombs landed right between the Kyetzay school and the monastery," a local woman told DMG.

The latest attack comes amid continuing military airstrikes across Arakan State, where the AA controls most townships but Myanmar's military continues to conduct aerial operations.

On November 5, a military fighter jet bombed Nankyar Village in Mrauk-U Township, killing a pregnant woman and injuring 12 civilians, according to the AA.

On November 3, two military fighter jets bombed an area near Mya Li Kan Village in neighbouring Kyauktaw Township, injuring a Buddhist monastery's abbot and damaging the monastery building and its compound walls, the AA reported.

A day earlier, on November 2, a military gyrocopter reportedly dropped two bombs on a camp for internally displaced people near Sane Min Pyin Village in Kyaukphyu Township. The AA said two displaced civilians were killed and five others injured.

Several shelters were also damaged, while one cow was killed and another injured.

On November 1, military airstrikes across Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Kyaukphyu and Pauktaw townships killed 12 civilians, including a newborn baby, and injured 32 others, according to the AA.

DMG previously reported that an airstrike on a temporary maternity ward and medical facility in Mrauk-U that day killed five people, including a newborn baby, and injured nine others.

The repeated strikes have heightened fears among local communities as residential areas, schools, healthcare facilities and religious buildings have suffered damage.

"Airstrikes have become much more terrifying. They bomb hospitals, they bomb schools, and now they don't even spare monasteries. There is no sense of security left," another Mrauk-U resident told DMG.

International humanitarian law prohibits attacks directed against civilians and civilian objects and requires parties to armed conflict to distinguish between civilian and military targets.

DMG has not independently verified the AA's reported figure of eight injured in the November 12 attack or all the details of the damage.