Airstrike kills 34 at Myanmar hospital

BANGKOK -- An airstrike by Myanmar's military destroyed a hospital in an area controlled by a leading rebel armed force, killing 34 patients and medical staff, according to a local rescue worker and independent media reports Thursday.

About 80 other people were injured in the attack late Wednesday on the general hospital in Mrauk-U township, an area controlled by the ethnic Arakan Army in the western state of Rakhine.

The ruling military has not announced news of any attack in the area.

Wai Hun Aung, a senior official for rescue services in Rakhine, told The Associated Press that a jet fighter dropped two bombs at 9:13 p.m. with one hitting the hospital's recovery ward and the other landing near the hospital's main building.

He said he arrived at

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