Myanmar Army Helicopter Attack Kills at Least 10 Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.

RADIO FREE ASIA
2019-04-04

A Myanmar border guard policeman stands near a group of Rohingya Muslims in front of their homes in a village in Buthidaung township, western Myanmar's Rakhine state, Jan. 25, 2019.

AFP

A helicopter attack by Myanmar’s army on Wednesday killed at least 10 Rohingya Muslims and injured more than a dozen others in violence-wracked Rakhine state, the latest civilian casualties in the armed conflict between government soldiers and the rebel Arakan Army (AA), local villagers told RFA’s Myanmar Service.

‘Helicopter attack kills five Rohingyas, wounds 13'

Dhaka Tribune
Thursday, Apr 04, 2019
Reuters, Yangon 

In this photograph taken on September 7, 2017, unidentified men carry knives and slingshots as they walk past a burning house in Gawdu Tharya village near Maungdaw in Rakhine state, in northern Myanmar AFP

The latest incident occurred in a valley in Buthidaung township, near a village that was home to Rohingya Muslim families

Villagers and a lawmaker in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state said on Thursday that a military helicopter attacked a group of Rohingya Muslims gathering bamboo, killing five and wounding 13, but a military spokesman declined to comment.