Myanmar police attack medics in crackdown on coup protesters

People build barricades to deter security personnel from entering a protest area in Mandalay, Myanmar, yesterday. Photo: AP

Nicola Smith

Police have been filmed mercilessly beating a volunteer ambulance crew in one of many social media videos documenting a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar.

CCTV footage filmed in the commercial city of Yangon on Wednesday showed armed police stopping an ambulance at gunpoint in the city’s north Okkakapa township and forcing three medics out of the vehicle before repeatedly hitting them in the head with rifle butts and kicking them.