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Naypyidaw (dpa) - In Myanmar, the police acted violently against peaceful demonstrators in the evening.
In Myitkyina in the north of the country, security forces reportedly shot at participants in a rally against the military coup that evening.
Videos shared on Twitter showed people scattering in panic.
It was initially unclear whether there were injuries and whether it was live ammunition or rubber bullets.
Local journalist Mratt Kyaw Thu and other observers reported that several journalists filming the army's operations were arrested.
Many users desperately called on the international community on social networks to help Myanmar.
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In the largest city of Rangoon, numerous tanks drove in in the evening (local time), as an eyewitness to the German press agency reported.
Corresponding photos could also be seen in social networks.
The Internet should be blocked all night on the orders of the army, wrote the newspaper "The Irrawaddy".
"People fear bad things," said the eyewitness.
In the past, the military had brutally put down any resistance.
As on Saturday, a crowd gathered in front of the US embassy in Rangoon to support Washington’s tough stance against the coup plotters.
President Joe Biden announced sanctions against leading generals and their affiliates in the White House on Wednesday.
“Help Myanmar”, “We do not want a dictatorship” and “Respect our voices” was previously read on banners in English in Rangoon (now officially Yangon).
The “Eleven Myanmar” portal also reported demonstrations from the cities of Mawlamyaing, Muse, Magway, Taunggi and Mandalay on the ninth consecutive day of protest.
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