{"id":3094,"date":"2025-10-11T11:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:12:05","slug":"about-40-killed-after-paragliders-drop-bombs-on-festival-crowd-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAbout 40 killed after paragliders drop bombs on festival crowd in Myanmar.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"619\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-131-1-edited.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-131-1-edited.webp 619w, https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-131-1-edited-300x199.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 40 people have been killed and around 80 wounded after a motorised paraglider dropped bombs on a crowd gathered for a candlelight vigil and Thadingyut full moon festival in Chaung U township, Myanmar.<br>The attack, which occurred Monday evening during a national holiday, targeted both festival-goers and protesters opposing the military government.<br><br>Hundreds had gathered when the paraglider, capable of carrying up to three soldiers, dropped two bombs on the crowd. Organizers said early warnings allowed about a third of people to escape, but many victims, including children, were killed or seriously injured.<br>A member of the committee responsible for the organization of the event said, \u201cAs of this morning, we were still collecting body parts from the ground \u2014 pieces of flesh, limbs, parts of bodies that were blown apart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 people have been killed and around 80 wounded after a motorised paraglider dropped bombs on a crowd gathered for a candlelight vigil and Thadingyut full moon festival in Chaung U township, Myanmar.The attack, which occurred Monday evening during a national holiday, targeted both festival-goers and protesters opposing the military government. Hundreds had&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/?p=3094\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;\u201cAbout 40 killed after paragliders drop bombs on festival crowd in Myanmar.\u201d&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3102,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coolxmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}