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Myanmar earthquake: Junta fires at Chinese Red Cross convoy

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The Red Cross convoy was en route to Mandalay , the hard-hit city near the epicentre of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake that struck last Friday .

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army , an armed rebel group, said that military troops shot at the convoy of nine vehicles with machine guns in eastern Shan State .

Myanmar 's junta, which said it was investigating the incident, denied shooting directly at the vehicles.

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