Death toll in Myanmar’s post-coup crackdown surpasses 300

Monitoring group says 320 people have been killed as military tries to suppress protests with many shot in the head.

Some 34 more people have been killed in Myanmar, taking the civilian death toll in the security forces’ crackdown on anti-coup protests to 320, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), which is tracking deaths and arrests, said in its latest update on Thursday. The AAPP said it had documented additional deaths across Myanmar including Yangon, its biggest city and ethnic minority areas in the country’s borderlands. In Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, the organisation said a 16 year old died after being shot in the back and some ambulances were also fired on.