At least 150 civilians from Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority may have been killed this week in an artillery and drone attack in the western state of Rakhine that is being blamed on the Arakan Army, a major force in the resistance to military rule.
FILE - Groups of Rohingya Muslims cross the Naf river at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh , near Palong Khali, Bangladesh , on Nov. 1, 2017. FILE - An aerial view taken from a helicopter shows Hla Phoe Khaung transit camp, at the Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar , on Sept. 20, 2018. FILE - Groups of Rohingya Muslims cross the Naf river at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh , near Palong Khali, Bangladesh , on Nov. 1, 2017.
Neither the video nor details of the attack can be easily verified due to tight restrictions on travel and ongoing combat in the area. Allegations of abuses by the Arakan Army are controversial because the group’s armed force has played a major role in winning battlefield victories for the resistance movement against military rule.
Following the drone attack, about 20 artillery shells also hit the crowd, he said, and he estimated that about 150 people, including children and women, were killed in total, and many others wounded. A 22-year-old Rohingya man who crossed into Bangladesh by boat just two hours after Monday’s attack told the AP that he passed about 50-60 dead bodies before boarding the boat, and saw many injured people, including children, asking for water and help or looking for missing persons in the dark.
It said that from Sunday to Wednesday, its teams in Bangladesh treated 39 people for violence-related injuries.
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