YANGON: At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed and several injured after troops clashed with insurgents in Myanmar's conflict-torn western state of Rakhine, a lawmaker and two residents said on Sunday (March 1). Saturday's fighting broke out after Arakan Army rebels attacked a military convoy passing the historic temple town of Mrauk U.
A police officer and security guards patrolling at a street near the town of Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, in Myanmar. At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed and several injured after troops clashed with insurgents in Myanmar's conflict-torn western state of Rakhine, a lawmaker and two residents said on Sunday . - Reuters
Two military spokesmen did not answer telephone calls from Reuters to seek comment, and the army did not immediately issue a statement on its website.A government spokesman said he could not comment. The MP, a health worker who treated the injured, and a villager said at least five Rohingya, members of a persecuted Muslim minority, had died.
Several hundred thousand Rohingya remain in Myanmar, many confined to camps and villages where they are caught in the middle of fresh fighting between the military and Arakan Army, which recruits from the mostly Buddhist majority in a drive for greater autonomy from the central government.Tun Thar Sein, the Mrauk U MP, said troops responded with gunfire and shelling in two villages on Saturday after rebels attacked their convoy.
"Five Muslims died as their bodies were found," a Rohingya villager from the area told Reuters on Sunday, asking not to be named for fear of retribution."Their funeral was held today.""We can't go out and we can't go anywhere," he added."We are just staying safe in our village. If this keeps happening, I feel like there is no hope."In early January, four Rohingya children died in a blast the military and rebels blamed on each other.
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