Myanmar's military junta has confirmed a deadly air strike on a village in the country's centre in the Sagaing region, reported malaymail. "There was (a People's Defence Force) office opening ceremony ... (Tuesday) morning about 8 am at Pazi Gyi village," junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun confirmed late Tuesday night.

He said some of the dead were anti-coup fighters in uniform while acknowledging "there could be some people with civilian clothes." Sagaing region -- near the country's second-largest city, Mandalay -- has put up some of the fiercest resistance to the military's rule, with intense fighting raging there for months.