On the 20th local time, two protesters were killed and dozens were injured due to the fire of government forces in Mandalay, the second city of Myanmar, and the United States and European countries criticized it.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price tweeted, "We are deeply concerned about reports that Burma, or Myanmar military police, are firing on protesters and continuing to detain and attack protesters," he said. "We are on the side of Burmese citizens."
The European Union's high-ranking foreign and security policy representative Josef Borrell and the French Foreign Ministry also criticized the firing of peaceful protesters.
The British Foreign Ministry, which previously imposed an asset freeze and a travel ban on Myanmar's defense minister and three vice ministers and ministers of the interior, condemned the firing and said it will "consider additional measures."
Reuters reported, citing local paramedics, that among the protests in the coup protests that took place over two weeks, the protests in Mandalay that day suffered the most casualties.