Press sources said that the Myanmar security forces shot dead 8 protesters on Friday, while Indonesia called for a regional summit aimed at finding a solution to the crisis.

"Myanmar Now" local website in Myanmar reported that security forces in the central town of Ongban opened fire in the face of opponents of the military coup, killing 8 people.

The website added that 7 of the protesters died during the confrontations, while an eighth person died after being transferred to a hospital in the town of Callao.

And media outlets reported that the authorities arrested two journalists, one of whom was a BBC correspondent.

The army and police used increasingly violent tactics to quell the protests of supporters of the detained leader after the coup, Aung San Sochi, but that did not deter protesters, and crowds continued to take to the streets in several towns.

Myanmar has been experiencing unrest since the army seized power and arrested the country's president, Win Myint, Sochi and the leaders of its ruling party, which sparked continuous popular protests and widespread international condemnation.

Leader detained after the coup Aung San Sochi (European)

The arrest of an opponent

Meanwhile, the Military Council in Myanmar has arrested a spokesman for the Sochi Party, which was arrested early last month.

The military arrested a spokesman for the National League for Democracy, K2, on Thursday, according to the American Associated Press.

K2 was a major source of information about what is happening in the country, especially in the first days that followed the military coup and the arrest of Sochi, according to the agency.

This comes at a time when the Military Council is intensifying its efforts to prevent the spread of any information about the growing protests against the military coup, according to the same source.

Despite the killing of more than 200 demonstrators so far, the demonstrators returned to the streets on Friday morning in several cities and towns, according to the previous source.

Indonesia position

Earlier Friday, Indonesian President Joko Widodo called the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to hold a summit at the level of leaders, with the aim of finding a solution to the crisis in Myanmar following the military coup.

In a statement, Widodo stressed the need to prevent more deaths in the protests that followed the coup in Myanmar.

And at the beginning of last month, army leaders carried out a coup d'état, followed by the arrest of senior leaders in the country, including President Win Myint and Chancellor Aung San Sochi.

And after the coup, there were popular demonstrations, rejecting them all over the country, to announce the military administration to impose martial law in areas of Yangon and Mandalay.