A Myanmar military strike on a festival demonstration has killed 40 people, including children, according to local reports.

Myanmar has been reeling from civil war since the military seized power in a 2021 coup, prompting pro-democracy rebels to take up arms and ally with ethnic armed groups against the junta.

Hundreds of people were gathered in central Myanmar's Chaung U township for the Thadingyut festival on Monday, local time, when the military dropped bombs on the crowd, according to a member of the committee that organised the event.

The woman, who requested anonymity for security reasons, said people were gathering for the festival and an anti-junta demonstration about 7pm when the bombs killed more than 40 people and injured about 80 others.

"The committee alerted people and on

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