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Yangon (AP) - Myanmar's military carried out numerous raids in the largest city of Yangon on Sunday evening after protests by opponents of the military coup.
Gunfire has been reported from several areas of the former capital formerly known as Rangoon.
Security forces moved in front of hospitals and universities, among other places, and patrolled residential areas.
Unverified but consistent videos from different angles on social media showed emergency services, popping noises and muzzle flashes around the Yangon General Hospital, for example.
«The military troops came to the hospital in our part of town.
People came to them and asked them not to move as it would frighten people too much.
But they shot people with live ammunition, "said a resident of the North Okkalapa district to a reporter for the German press agency.
“Some were very badly wounded.
We don't know anything about the dead at the moment.
You have arrested people. "
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In another district of Yangon, security forces arrested more than 100 demonstrators on Sunday evening, according to media reports.
Nationwide, according to media reports, the military deployed troops in more than ten hospitals and several universities, where the protest movement is said to have a particularly large number of supporters.
Previously, hundreds of thousands of supporters of the disempowered Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi took to the streets across the country on Sunday.
On Sunday night, the police and the military carried out raids in Yangon against members of Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party and activists.
On February 1, the military put a coup against the de facto Prime Minister Suu Kyi.
The 75-year-old had won the parliamentary election in November by a clear margin.
There have been repeated mass protests in Myanmar since the coup.
The military has recently tried with increasing severity to break the resistance.
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Report from "Radio Free Asia" (Myanmar)
Report from "Myanmar Now"