Death toll rises after another day of bloody protests in Myanmar

Anti-coup protesters run around their makeshift barricade at a demonstration in Yangon on Sunday (AP)

Myanmar security forces opened fire on a crowd attending the funeral of student who was killed on the bloodiest day yet of a crackdown on protests against last month’s coup, local media reported.

The escalating violence — which took the lives of at least 114 people on Saturday including several children — has prompted a UN human rights expert to accuse the junta of committing “mass murder” and to criticise the international community for not doing enough to stop it.