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YANGON (UPDATED)- Twelve people were killed when a Myanmar military plane crashed in a central region of the country Thursday, a spokesman for the junta said.The plane, which was carrying six crew and eight passengers, crashed near the city of Pyin Oo Lwin, the spokesperson said in a statement to journalists, blaming the cause on &quot;bad weather&quot;.&quot;It lost communications when it was 400 meters (1,300 feet) away from a steel factory near the airport,&quot; Zaw Min Tun said in a statement.A senior monk was among those on board, the statement said, adding a team had been able to rescue a boy and a sergeant, who had been sent to a nearby military hospital.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/06/08/21/escape-from-myanmar-how-a-reporter-fled-to-safety-in-spain">Escape from Myanmar: How a reporter fled to safety in Spain</a></li></ul>Emergency workers were still on the scene, it continued.A picture posted on social media showed the twisted body of a plane lying in a field. Myanmar&#x27;s Buddhist monkhood led an earlier struggle against military rule but is split on the coup that ended the country&#x27;s nascent democracy, with some prominent religious leaders defending the new junta.Pyin Oo Lwin is home to the Defence Services Academy, where the military&#x27;s top brass are trained. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, who ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from power in the February 1 coup, is a graduate.The military has sought to quell mass anti-junta protests with bloody crackdowns that have killed more than 800 civilians, according to a local monitoring group.This has prompted civilians in some townships to form &quot;defense forces&quot;, while some of Myanmar&#x27;s ethnic rebel armies have stepped up offensives against the military. <ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/05/23/21/myanmar-anti-coup-insurgents-seize-police-post-kill-security-forces">Myanmar anti-coup insurgents seize police post, kill security forces</a></li></ul>Last month, the Kachin Independence Army -- an ethnic rebel group that has waged a decades-long insurgency against the military -- downed an army helicopter during fierce clashes. Plane crashes are common in Myanmar due to its underdeveloped aviation sector, and Myanmar&#x27;s monsoon season has caused problems for commercial and military flights in the past. A military plane crashed into the Andaman Sea in 2017, killing all 122 people on board in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the country&#x27;s history. Authorities blamed bad weather. And in 2015, an Air Bagan passenger plane veered off the runway amid bad weather and heavy rain. A passenger and a person on the ground were killed.<div>RELATED VIDEO</div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1640807" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

YANGON (UPDATED)- Twelve people were killed when a Myanmar military plane crashed in a central region of the country Thursday, a spokesman for the junta said.

YANGON (UPDATED) - Twelve people were killed when a Myanmar military plane crashed in a central region of the country Thursday, a spokesman for the junta said.