YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Security forces in Myanmar have pointed guns toward anti-coup protesters and attacked them with sticks, seeking to quell large-scale demonstrations calling for the military junta that seized power earlier this month to reinstate the elected government. More than 1,000 protesters were rallying in front of the Myanmar Economic Bank in Mandalay, the country’s second-largest city, when at least 10 trucks full of soldiers and police arrived and started firing slingshots toward the protesters. The soldiers and police then attacked the protesters with sticks, and police could be seen aiming long guns into the air amid sounds that resembled gunfire. Police were also seen pointing guns toward the protesters.
Myanmar security forces intensify crackdown on protesters
