Local volunteer emergency service reported the deaths on Saturday.

The ongoing demonstrations have hit several cities, but in Mandalay, the situation escalated when security forces were confronted by shipyard workers who had gone on strike with other protesters.

Some of them fired catapults at police in a cat and mouse game through the city streets.

Police responded with tear gas and gunfire.

Witnesses say they found both rubber bullets and live ammunition on the ground.

In addition to the dead, at least 22 people are reportedly injured.

The protesters, who have ranged from ethnic minorities to rappers, show no sign of relenting elsewhere in Myanmar.

In the City of Yangon.

Memorial ceremony for me, a tweet tweet Kang, the 20 year old protester who had been shot in the head at an earlier demonstration.

She'd been on life support for 10 days before she died on Friday, becoming the first death among opponents of the code theme.

Military says.