Myanmar's security forces shot and killed more than 90 protesters on Saturday (March 27), according to witnesses and news reports.
That's as the country's junta leader said the military would protect people and strive for democracy.
It was also a day when, according to local media, a boy as young as five was among those shot dead.
On Friday (March 26), state media warned that protesters risked being "shot to the head and back", without specifically say the army had been given shoot-to-kill orders.
Nevertheless, protesters against the February 1 coup defied the threat and came out on the streets.
The five-year-old boy was reportedly among 29 killed in Myanmar's second city Mandalay.
The Myanmar Now news portal said 91 had been killed across the country in one of the bloodiest days of protests since the military coup.
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