A volunteer medical worker frantically tries to save a person shot by security forces in Mandalay's Maha Aung Myay Township this afternoon. (Frontier)
A volunteer medical worker frantically tries to save a person shot by security forces in Mandalay's Maha Aung Myay Township this afternoon. (Frontier)

Five killed after police launch deadly crackdown on Mandalay sit-in

At least five people have been killed in Mandalay today when security forces fired live rounds at peaceful protesters, after three more people died in Yangon overnight.

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