Dozens of villagers killed and Save the Children workers missing in Myanmar

Vehicles smoulder in Hpruso township, Kayah state, Myanmar, on Friday (Karenni Nationalities Defence Force via AP)

Two members of charity Save the Children are missing after Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, before fatally shooting more than 30 of them and burning the bodies.

Photos of the aftermath of the purported Christmas Eve massacre in eastern Mo So village, where refugees were sheltering from an army offensive, spread on social media in the country and fuelled outrage against the military that took power in February. The accounts could not be independently verified.