At least 30 people, including patients, have been killed, and about 70 wounded after an air strike by the country’s military government hit a major hospital in western Myanmar, according to a rebel group, aid workers and a witness.

Myanmar has been gripped by attritional fighting in a raging civil war .

The hospital in western Rakhine state’s Mrauk U township was struck late on Wednesday by bombs dropped by a military aircraft, said Khine Thu Kha, a spokesman for the Arakan Army, which is battling the ruling government along parts of the coastal state.

“The Mrauk U General Hospital was completely destroyed,” Khine Thu Kha told the Reuters news agency.

“The high number of casualties occurred because the hospital took a direct hit.”

Myanmar has been gripped by conflict since the milit

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