[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.

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[Link] World War II bomb explodes near Munich's main train station, injuring four

Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au

Four people were injured when what is believed to be an old aircraft bomb exploded at a bridge near Munich's busy main train station on Wednesday. The Munich fire brigade said one person was seriously injured, after local police first reported the incident on Twitter.

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[Link] After Sierra Leone Explosion, a Health System Is Strained

Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com

Victims are still dying from injuries after a fuel tanker burst into flames last week in Sierra Leone, a country that has no burn units.

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