Oct. 8 (UPI) -- At least 24 protesters in Myanmar were killed and 47 injured after they were bombed from the air as they participated in a demonstration against the military government in a town in the country's central Sagaing region. Regime forces launched the attack on the gathering of about 100 people from motorized paragliders over the town of Chaung-U, 200 miles northwest of the capital, Naypyidaw, according to the exiled National Unity Government formed after Aung San Suu Kyi 's