Five Students Killed and Nine Injured in Junta Airstrike on Bilin Village

October 13, 2025

HURFOM: Five students were killed and nine others were injured when the junta launched an airstrike on Pyin Ma Pin Seik Village, Bilin Township, Mon State, despite the absence of any fighting in the area, according to the Karen National Union (KNU) Thaton District.

At around 8 p.m. on October 9, a military jet dropped two 500-pound bombs on the village, striking civilian homes without warning. The victims were all young students: Saw Htun Htun Min (6), Saw Lin Htet (7), Naw Mingalar Phaw (9), Naw Mu Chay Chay (10), and Naw Pu Lone (12).

Nine other civilians, including a one-year-old child named Saw Tar Hey, were seriously injured in the attack. Eleven houses were also destroyed by bomb fragments, leaving families displaced and traumatized.

“This village has never seen any fighting before. The bombing was carried out without reason, likely because the junta wants to create fear as the election draws near,” said Padoh Saw Aye Naing, Secretary of the KNU Thaton District.

The KNU condemned the strike as a deliberate act of violence targeting civilians in areas outside junta control. Pyin Ma Pin Seik Village lies under KNU Thaton District administration and is one of several communities where the junta has failed to organize its planned sham elections.

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