At least 40 people have died after a paraglider dropped bombs over a full moon festival in Myanmar.

Hundreds of people had gathered in the streets for both the Thadingyut festival and an anti-junta demonstration when a paraglider flew over and started to drop bombs at about 7pm local time on Monday.

One of the committee members who organised the event, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons, said 40 people had died and around 80 more were injured.

The committee managed to alert people as the paraglider approached, meaning about a third of the crowd managed to flee, but victims including children were ‘completely torn apart’ by the bombs.

She told AFP: ‘As of this morning, we were still collecting body parts from the ground — pieces of flesh, limbs, parts of bodies that were

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