Over 100 people were killed, including women and dozens of children, from the attack that took place on Tuesday in the village of Pazi Gyi, Kanbalu District, during the inauguration of an office in the rebel stronghold of Pazigyi, of the Government of National Unity. According to the Kyunhla activist group, which is at the scene, at least 20 children were killed and 50 people were injured.

Families had traveled from nearby villages for the event, where tea and food were offered and which coincided with the start of Thingyan New Year celebrations, according to CNN. The new municipal office was opened under the authority of the shadow National Unity Government (NUG), for the people, as part of the resistance against the junta.

At the time of the attack dozens of people were inside the office and as a result they met a horrible death.

“We had no warning”the eyewitness said. “Most of the villagers were inside the event” he reported. Relatives of the victims are at the site of the attack to collect the charred bodies and limbs of the victims killed in the military airstrike.

An image from the site making the rounds on the internet shows bodies strewn left and right.

An eyewitness stated on CNN how ljust before 8 am, a military junta plane bombed the village where the ceremony was taking place. An Mi35 helicopter then circled and began firing over the village a few minutes later.

“When I got to the scene, we tried to look for people who were still alive,” he said. “Everything was terrible. People were dying (being transported) on motorbikes. Children and women. Some lost heads, limbs, hands. I saw flesh on the road” describes.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “strongly condemns the attack by the armed forces of Myanmar (…) and calls those responsible to account,” underlined a press release issued by his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric.

Mr Guterres “reiterates his appeal to the Myanmar military to end the campaign of violence against the population” of the country, his spokesman added.