MYANMAR’S military has carried out an air strike on a camp for displaced persons, killing more than 30 people, a human rights group and local media reports said today.

Monday night’s attack on the Mung Lai Hkyet displacement camp in the northern part of Laiza, a town in the northern state of Kachin where the rebel Kachin Independence Army is based, also wounded about 60 people, according to a spokesman for Kachin Human Rights Watch.

The spokesman, who, for security reasons, asked to be identified only as Jacob, said 19 adults and 13 children from the camp had been killed in the air strikes.

“We strongly condemn this inhumane killing. This action causes resentment among the Kachin people,” he said.

Local website Kachin News Group reported that more than 30 displaced persons had been killed by the bombs dropped by jet fighters.

It was impossible to independently confirm the details of the incident, though media sympathetic to the Kachin posted videos showing what they said was the attack’s aftermath, with images of dead bodies and flattened wooden structures.

The Kachin Independence Army is one of the stronger ethnic rebel groups and has a loose alliance with the armed militias formed by Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement to fight the military junta.