New Delhi: The civilian death toll in the air strike carried out by Myanmar’s junta in a village in the Sagaing region on April 11 has been increasing, with latest news reports counting it at 110.According to a report in The Irrawaddy, the death toll from the airstrike in Pazi Gyi village of the Kantbalu township had risen to 110 by April 12. The report said the toll “is expected to increase as relatives and locals continued to recover the charred bodies and limbs of the victims”.“Survivors and volunteers collecting the bodies said pieces of flesh were found scattered all over the site after the junta fighter jet bombed the event in Pazi Gyi village on Tuesday (April 11) morning. After the bomb attack, an Mi-35 combat helicopter sprayed the area with gunfire, inflicting further casualties and hindering the rescue operation. In the evening, the junta jet fighter conducted another air strike while locals were still collecting bodies from the morning attack,” the report said.That morning, hundreds of people including children from around six villages of the township had gathered at the spot for a feast to mark the launch of a local administration office. Several children are among the dead, the reports said.The airstrike is considered the worst carried out by the Myanmar’s military in the last two years of the coup. In a statement issued by the National Unity Government dismissed by the junta, it stated that the military no longer distinguished between civilians and armed groups in their attack “and the incident was another piece of evidence that the junta army has repeated a war crime”.In a report, the Mizzima has quoted Burmese News International’s Monitoring Myanmar’s Peace Programme data to state that between February 1, 2021 and January 25, 2023, the junta had carried out air attacks for 258 days. The report said, “The military junta has reportedly been suffering serious losses in their conflicts with the resistance and have therefore increased their air strikes since early 2022, a year after the coup. Many of these attacks have taken place in states and regions such as Sagaing, Magwe, Kachin, Kayar, Kayin, Chin and Shan, with many of the offensives targeting civilians rather than the anti-junta forces.”The latest airstrike has attracted widespread international condemnation including the United Nations calling “for those responsible to be held accountable”.