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Myanmar junta air strike on hospital kills 31: on-site aid worker

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People walk past an election campaign poster in Yangon, Myanmar, Dec. 10. Myanmar activists have called for the public to participate in a 'silent strike' across the country to reject the military junta's election plans by staying at home. EPA-Yonhap

People walk past an election campaign poster in Yangon, Myanmar, Dec. 10. Myanmar activists have called for the public to participate in a 'silent strike' across the country to reject the military junta's election plans by staying at home. EPA-Yonhap

MRAUK U, Myanmar — A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, an on-site aid worker said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections beginning this month.

"The situation is very terrible," said aid worker Wai Hun Aung, reporting an overnight strike on a hospital in Mrauk-U town of western Rakhine state.

"There are 31 deaths and we think there will be more."