Ethnic armed group suspected of deadly attack in Myanmar on Rohingya trying to flee fighting

AP
By GRANT PECK
August 10, 2024

BANGKOK (AP) — 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 survivors suspect was carried out by a major force in the resistance to military rule.

Dozens of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed in drone attack

REUTERS
Shoon Naing, Poppy Mcpherson and Devjyot Ghoshal
August 10, 2024

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 27, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain Purchase Licensing Rights

BANGKOK, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives.

Four witnesses, activists and a diplomat described drone attacks on Monday that struck down families waiting to cross the border into neighbouring Bangladesh.

A heavily pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter were among the victims in the attack, the single deadliest known assault on civilians in Rakhine state during recent weeks of fighting between junta troops and rebels.

BANGKOK, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives.

Myanmar troops keep fleeing to Bangladesh

NEW AGE
Muktadir Rashid and Mustafizur Rahman 
Published: Feb 07,2024

Border Guard Bangladesh personnel detain a Myanmar national (centre), who crossed the Bangladesh-Myanmar border illegally, in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. ­— AFP photo 

 

At least 158 Myanmar troops with arms and ammunition and government officials fled conflicts to bordering Bangladesh alone on Tuesday and sought shelter crossing the international border amid intense fighting between Myanmar forces and the ethnic rebel group, the Arakan Army.