Three Young Women Killed as Myanmar Jets and Drones Strike Bible School in Karen State
Christian Solidarity Worldwide says the Nov. 3 attack on a Bible school in Day Bu Noh village came with no fighting nearby. One student died while being carried across the Salween River to a hospital in Thailand.
See where this is ›HPAPUN, Myanmar —
Three female students were killed and others were hurt when Myanmar's military bombed and then hit a Christian Bible school with armed drones in Day Bu Noh village, in Karen State's Hpapun District, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, according to Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based religious freedom group. The Christian Post also reported the attack.
See where this is ›CSW said the strike began at about 3 p.m. Jet fighters dropped more than 10 bombs, and armed drones then pounded the area for about an hour, with one drone exploding directly over the school. The group said no fighting was taking place in the area at the time.
Two of the students died at once, CSW said. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, local officials helped carry two critically injured students across the Salween River into Thailand; one of them died on the way to Sop Moei Hospital. CSW did not release the names of the dead or the name of the school.
The village lies in Pkay Bu Village Tract, Lu Thaw Township, in Hpapun District, which the Karen people call Mutraw. CSW said the area is governed by Brigade 5 of the Karen National Union and has faced steady air strikes, artillery shelling and the burning of villages since May.
“CSW is outraged and appalled by the junta's deliberate attack on a Christian Bible school in Hpapun District,” said Scot Bower, the group's chief executive. He called on governments to “enforce an aviation fuel embargo and hold the regime to account.”
The Christian Post noted other recent attacks in mostly Christian areas of Myanmar, including an Oct. 25 jet strike on Mae Nu Hta village that killed a child and attacks on churches in Mindat on Oct. 9 and in Bhamo on Oct. 12. It cited the monitoring group Myanmar Witness, which counted more than 300 air strikes on religious sites from January 2024 to December 2025.
What we don't know yet: the number of injured. CSW's statement says six were hurt in one place and seven in another, and The Christian Post repeats both figures. Myanmar's military has not commented in the reports, and Watchman News has not independently confirmed the details.
