TRT World’s Daily News Brief for Thursday, March 11th.

*) Amnesty International says Myanmar army uses battle tactics against protests

We start in Myanmar, where Amnesty International says the military has been using battlefield weapons and lethal force against anti-coup protesters.

The rights group says it verified over 50 videos from the crackdown and that many of the documented killings amounted to extrajudicial executions.

Amnesty has also accused army units equipped with battlefield weapons of involvement in atrocities against Rohingya Muslims.

*) Japan mourns victims of 2011 earthquake, nuclear disaster

Japan is marking 10 years of the Fukushima disaster in which a powerful earthquake and deadly tsunami pummelled a nuclear plant.

The disaster killed nearly 20,000 people. Over 160,000 residents had to flee to escape radiation.

A minute's silence was observed across the country at 2:46 pm, the precise moment a 9.0 magnitude quake hit off the northeast coast on March 11, 2011.

*) Dozens killed in Indonesia after bus falls into ravine

In Indonesia, a tourist bus has plunged into a ravine on the main island of Java, killing at least 27 people and injuring 39 others.

The bus carrying 66 passengers was returning to the town of Subang from a pilgrimage site in West Java.

Police are still investigating the cause of the accident but survivors say the vehicle's brakes had apparently malfunctioned.

*) Thousands of nurses dead since WHO declared coronavirus a pandemic

At least 3,000 nurses have been killed by Covid-19 so far, according to the global nurses' federation report.

It comes as the world marks a year of the WHO declaration of the coronavirus as a pandemic.

Nurses federations warn of an impending exodus of health workers who have been traumatised by the pandemic.

And finally…

*) Hundreds of thousands take a holy dip in India

Tens of thousands of Hindu devotees have gathered for Kumbh Mela in northern India despite coronavirus restrictions.

The government has limited the gathering and made negative Covid-19 test certificates compulsory.

Hindus believe bathing in the Ganges river will cleanse their sins and bring them salvation.