Survivors claim that one of the Burmese military's bloodiest attacks during the ongoing civil war has left at least 53 people dead.
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They claim that among the deceased are at least 15 women and several children. The BBC is unable to confirm the figures.
The strike on Tuesday was directed at a community in the northwest Sagaing district that had been critical of the military authority.
When the military took over in February 2021, airstrikes against their adversaries increased.
Villages in Sagaing have organized their own militias, operated their own schools, and provided some of the greatest resistance to military control in Myanmar.
A villager told the BBC that at around 07:00 local time (01:30 BST), a military jet had flown over and dropped a bomb before being followed by a helicopter gunship that pounded the area for 20 minutes.
Neighbors recorded scenes of horrific violence and posted the footage, which showed multiple burning buildings and severed bodies laying on the ground.
As they marched through Pa Zi Gyi looking for victims of the attack, they could be heard yelling, "Please call out if you are still alive, we are going to aid you."
They claimed that while they made an effort to count the bodies, it was challenging due to the sheer number of them being in parts and dispersed among torn clothing and burned motorcycles.
People from the surrounding areas jammed Pa Zi Gyi for a celebration to celebrate the opening of a new People's Defence Forces (PDF) office.
The PDFs are unpaid anti-coup militias fighting the military with weapons throughout Myanmar.
The civil war has resulted in thousands of deaths and an additional 1.4 million displaced people. According to the United Nations, over a third of the population of the nation requires humanitarian assistance.
Because the military government's ground troops are finding it difficult to move around on roads where they are frequently ambushed or hit by mines and improvised explosive devices, the military government has been relying more and more on its Russian and Chinese aircraft to bomb opposition-controlled villages (IEDs). Non-combatants may suffer significantly more casualties as a result of the airstrikes.
According to data from the conflict-monitoring organization Acled, there were at least 600 military air attacks between February 2021 and January 2023, according to a BBC study (Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project).
The exiled National Unity Government, which was established after the coup, claims that between October 2021 and September 2022, these attacks resulted in the deaths of 155 citizens.
At least 50 people were killed in October when three bombs were dropped on a concert in Kachin state by an ethnic militant group by air force jets. At least five children were murdered and numerous more were hurt in an attack on a school in the central Myanmar hamlet of Let But Kone a month earlier.
One of the bloodiest single episodes in the civil conflict to date, if the death toll at Pa Zi Gyi is confirmed.
The head of the military administration, General Min Aung Hlaing, declared last month that the authorities will react harshly with what he called "acts of terror" by armed rebel organizations.
