YANGON – Security forces in Myanmar pointed guns toward anti-coup protesters and attacked them with sticks on Monday, seeking to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the military junta that seized power this month to reinstate the elected government.
More than 1,000 protesters rallied in front of Myanmar Economic Bank in Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, when at least 10 trucks full of soldiers and police arrived and immediately fired slingshots to the protesters.
The soldiers and police then attacked the protesters with sticks and police aimed long guns into the air. Reports said rubber bullets were fired into the crowd and a few people were injured. (AP)
