<p>A passenger on board a Myanmar domestic flight was shot in the face Friday when rebels opened fire on the plane as it landed, the country's military junta said.</p>.<p>A bullet passed through the fuselage of the Myanmar National Airlines plane as it made its descent carrying 63 people into Loikaw, the capital of eastern Kayah state.</p>.<p>Myanmar has been in turmoil since a military coup ousted the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February last year, with thousands killed in a crackdown on dissent.</p>.<p>Anti-coup rebels have sprung up across the country to battle the junta, in some areas allying with local ethnic militias that have been in conflict with the authorities for decades.</p>.<p>The plane, flying from the capital Naypyidaw, came under fire at a height of around 1,000 metres (3,280 feet), about six kilometres (3.7 miles) north of Loikaw airport on Friday morning, the junta said in a statement.</p>.<p>The statement blamed fighters from an anti-junta militia and the Karenni National Progressive Party, an ethnic rebel army, for the shooting.</p>.<p>"A passenger on board was injured on the right cheek because of a gunshot," the statement said.</p>.<p>"The injured passenger is now being given treatment at Loikaw People's Hospital and security forces are performing security process in the area where the attack happened."</p>.<p>More than 2,300 people have been killed and 15,000 arrested in the military's crackdown on dissent since the coup, according to a local monitoring group.</p>.<p>The latest civilian death toll issued by the junta stands at almost 3,900.</p>
<p>A passenger on board a Myanmar domestic flight was shot in the face Friday when rebels opened fire on the plane as it landed, the country's military junta said.</p>.<p>A bullet passed through the fuselage of the Myanmar National Airlines plane as it made its descent carrying 63 people into Loikaw, the capital of eastern Kayah state.</p>.<p>Myanmar has been in turmoil since a military coup ousted the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February last year, with thousands killed in a crackdown on dissent.</p>.<p>Anti-coup rebels have sprung up across the country to battle the junta, in some areas allying with local ethnic militias that have been in conflict with the authorities for decades.</p>.<p>The plane, flying from the capital Naypyidaw, came under fire at a height of around 1,000 metres (3,280 feet), about six kilometres (3.7 miles) north of Loikaw airport on Friday morning, the junta said in a statement.</p>.<p>The statement blamed fighters from an anti-junta militia and the Karenni National Progressive Party, an ethnic rebel army, for the shooting.</p>.<p>"A passenger on board was injured on the right cheek because of a gunshot," the statement said.</p>.<p>"The injured passenger is now being given treatment at Loikaw People's Hospital and security forces are performing security process in the area where the attack happened."</p>.<p>More than 2,300 people have been killed and 15,000 arrested in the military's crackdown on dissent since the coup, according to a local monitoring group.</p>.<p>The latest civilian death toll issued by the junta stands at almost 3,900.</p>