At least 12 people were killed and 18 others injured when the Myanmar military launched an airstrike on a displacement camp for people fleeing the country's ongoing civil war in western Myanmar's Rakhine State. According to reports from Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Saturday, November 14, 2026, the bombing struck the Byar La Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Ponnagyun township, northeast of the regional capital Sittwe, on Friday evening.

Local eyewitnesses and rescue workers reported that the attack occurred without warning, leaving families devastated. Chit Su Wai (27), a shopkeeper who lost her daughter, aunt, and mother in the strike, recounted, “I only saw their bodies scattered in agony. We didn't hear any warplanes coming, but suddenly they dropped bombs. My entire family was destroyed.” Khain Hein Htet, chairman of the local rescue organization Fushin Yin Khuin Foundation, confirmed the death toll—which includes a 5-year-old child—and noted that many residents had lived in the camp for four years, believing it to be a safe haven. On Saturday, residents buried the victims in temporary graves wrapped in yellow and red plastic amid the wreckage of shattered bamboo huts and destroyed belongings.