![]() Loikaw has become a deserted city.Īpproximately 200 displaced persons have been given shelter in the Cathedral complex, together with a few priests and nuns. ![]() “People are fleeing in search for shelter, and very few people are still left in the city.” Some 50,000 out of a population of 90,000 – two-thirds of the inhabitants – have fled their homes to seek a safe place to stay. ![]() “Loikaw is under attack, it is heavily hit almost every day by gunfire, air and helicopter raids,” said the priest. He sent a series of photos this morning documenting the damages of the parish church of Doukhu and the Cathedral of Christ the King in Loikaw, where approximately 200 displaced persons, most of them women, children, elderly and sick persons, have been sheltered for days. We’re caught in the middle of a battlefield,” Father Francis Soe Naing, chancellor of the diocese of Loikaw, told SIR. In Doukhu one of the bell towers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church was completely destroyed in an air raid yesterday. Air raids and bombings continue non-stop in Myanmar.
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