Nineteen students were killed in a military airstrike on a boarding school, a Myanmar militia says. Photo: AP PHOTO

A Myanmar military airstrike on a school last week killed at least 19 students, an ethnic militia says, as the war-torn nation's ruling junta steps up a campaign to retake territory ahead of a planned election in December.

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Children were killed and injured at the boarding school in Kyauktaw township in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state, the UN children's agency UNICEF said in a statement.

It did not say how many were killed in the incident, but the Arakan Army, a militia

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