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More than 40 people were killed by security forces in protests in Hlaing Tharyar on March 14 and several factories were set ablaze.
France said the European Union would approve sanctions against those behind the coup next Monday.
More than 180 protesters have been killed as security forces try to crush a wave of demonstrations.
Myanmar: Thousands of residents fled an industrial suburb of Myanmar s commercial capital on Tuesday (March 16) after it was placed under martial law by the ruling junta following bloody anti-coup protests over the weekend. Here is like a war zone, they are shooting everywhere, a labour organizer in the Hlaing Tharyar district told Reuters, saying that most residents were too frightened to go outside.
The families of dozens of people killed in clashes between Myanmar security forces and anti-coup protesters prepared to hold funerals on Tuesday after candle-lit vigils overnight in defiance of a curfew.