'Myanmar army's clash with insurgents kills 5 Rohingyas'

Prothum Alo------   

Reuters

Yangon, Myanmar
1 March 2020,  

Myanmar police officer poses for a photograph in Maungdaw, Rakhine 9 July, 2019. Photo: Reuters 

At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed, including a child, 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. 

Saturday's fighting broke out after Arakan Army rebels attacked a military convoy passing the historic temple town of Mrauk U, the regional MP, Tun Thar Sein, and a spokesman for the armed group, Khine Thu Kha, said.

Seven Rohingyas die in Teknaf 'gunfight'

THE ASIAN AGE

03 March 2020
AA News Desk 

Seven people, believed to be part of a Rohingya robbery gang, have died in alleged shootouts with RAB in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf.The incident took place in the hilly area adjacent to Mochni Rohingya camp in Hnila Union of Teknaf Upazila in the early hours of Monday, said RAB-15 Ramu Battalion Deputy Commander Major Md Rabiul Islam, reports bdnews24.com.He could not immediately identify the victims.

Bangladesh Police Kills Seven Suspected Rohingya Robbers In Raid

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Reuters | Updated on: 02 Mar 2020,
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At Least 50 Rohingya People Have Been Killed In Shootouts In Bangladesh Since The Latest Mass Influx Of Rohingya Refugees In August 2017, According To Police.

Police in Bangladesh killed seven members of a gang of armed robbers on Monday during a raid on their hideout on a hillside overlooking a camp for Rohingya refugees in the southeast of the country, a police spokesman said. Crime and violence are on the rise in the squalid, sprawling camps around the coastal city of Cox's Bazar, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya took shelter in recent years after fleeing persecution in neighbouring Myanmar.

Myanmar army clash with insurgents kills five Rohingya, including a child

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STRAITSTIMES

By Reuters -
March 1, 2020

At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed, including a child, and several injured after troops clashed. -NSTP Courtesy of PKRM 

YANGON: At least five ethnic Rohingya were killed, including a child, and several injured after troops clashed with insurgents in Myanmar’s conflict-torn western state of Rakhine, a lawmaker and two residents said.

Saturday’s fighting broke out after Arakan Army rebels attacked a military convoy passing the historic temple town of Mrauk U, the regional MP, Tun Thar Sein, and a spokesman for the armed group, Khine Thu Kha, said.

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.

3 Rohingya Muslims killed in Myanmar shelling

AA

Kyaw Ye Lynn 

YANGON, Myanmar

29.02.2020 

Artillery shells land in Rohingya villages in western Rakhine state, official says 

At least three Rohingya Muslims were killed and at least 10 other villagers injured after an artillery shell hit a village in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state on Saturday, an official said.

The incident happened in two Rohingya villages in Mrauk-U township on Saturday shortly after Arakan Army -- a predominantly Buddhist ethnic group -- attacked a military convoy carrying out the regular patrol in the area.

Myanmar Army Says it Will Try Soldiers Over Killings of Rohingya Civilians

RADIO FREE ASIA
2020-02-21

Members of the Myanmar military honor guard take part in a ceremony marking the 73rd National Union Day in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, Feb. 12, 2020.
AFP

The Myanmar military announced Friday that it would investigate and open court-martial proceedings against soldiers accused of killing Rohingya Muslim civilians during a violent army-led crackdown in the country’s Rakhine state in 2017, the third such case in a country facing international criticism for failing to hold troops accountable for widespread atrocities.

Rohingya Boy Killed as Village Hit by Artillery Shells in Western Myanmar

The Irrawaddy
By Min Aung Khine
11 February 2020

SITTWE, Rakhine State—A Rohingya teenager was killed and four others were injured when several shells hit villages in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, local residents said, as heavy fighting between the Myanmar military (or Tatmadaw) and the Arakan Army (AA) continued in the area.

Artillery shells struck Taungbwe Village at around 4 a.m. on Monday, killing a 15-year-old boy and wounding two teenagers, Kalu, a relative of the boy who was killed, told The Irrawaddy.

 

Blast Kills Four Rohingya Children, Injures Six Others in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Radio Free Asia
2020-01-07

Rohingya men carry a child injured in an explosion on a hill near Htikehtoopauk village, Buthidaung township, in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, Jan. 7, 2020.
Photo courtesy of a citizen journalist

Four Rohingya children were killed and six other people injured in an explosion Tuesday in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, villagers said, though it is unclear whether the blast was caused by a landmine or shelling by the government military or the rebel Arakan Army, which have been engaged in hostilities since late 2018.

Muslim Villager Shot Dead by Army While Going Fishing in Rakhine, Locals Say

The Irrawaddy
By Min Aung Khine
9 October 2019

A signpost marking Buthidaung Township / Min Aung Khine / The Irrawaddy 

SITTWE, Rakhine State—A Muslim villager was shot dead by the Myanmar military in Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township at around 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning, according to local villagers.

2 Rohingyas among 3 killed in Teknaf, Kushtia 'gunfights'

Dhaka Tribune
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar, 
Al Mamun Sagor, Kushtia
September 13th, 2019

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The incidents also left seven policemen injured

Three people, including two Rohingyas, have been killed in reported gunfights in Cox's Bazar and Kushtia districts.

The incidents happened early Friday.

In Cox's Bazar, two Rohingya men, suspected of being involved in the murder of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Teknaf upazila.

The deceased were identified as Abul Karim, 24, and Nesar Ahmed alias Nesar Dacoit, 29, of Nayapara Rohingya camp.

Pradip Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Teknaf police station said: "Acting on a tip-off, we conducted a drive at Jadimura Hill area around midnight.

3 police officers killed within 2 weeks in northern Arakan

Narinjara News
1 September 2019

At least three police officers were killed in northern part of Arakan in Myanmar since 19 August last.
The latest one is reported from Ponna Kyunt township, 20 miles north of Arakanese capital city of Sittwe this morning.

An officer from Yota Yoke police station was stabbed to death by miscreants.

The victim police officer Zaw Min Htay was targeted at around 7 am when he was walking near the Yota Yoke market adjacent to the police station.

Omar Faruk murder: 2 Rohingyas killed in Cox’s Bazar 'gunfight'

The Daily Star  

Star Online Report
August 24, 2019

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, are killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar on August 24, 2019. This is an undated photo of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk. Photo: Collected

Two Rohingya people, also accused of Jubo League leader Omar Faruk murder case, were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Cox’s Bazar early today.

Deceased Muhammad Shah and Abdu Shukkur were residents of Zadimura Rohingya refugee camp at Hnila union of the district’s Teknaf upazila, our Cox's Bazar correspondent reports.

Rescue worker killed in attack on ambulance in northern Myanmar - army

Reuters

World News

August 17, 2019
Shoon Naing

YANGON (Reuters) - One rescue worker was killed and several others were wounded when an ambulance came under fire in northern Myanmar amid clashes between troops and ethnic rebels in the region, an army spokesman and a witness said on Saturday.

The rescue workers were 13 miles from Lashio, the largest town in Shan State, where ethnic armed groups have been fighting for greater autonomy from the central government, when their convoy came under attack.

Three Rohingyas among 4 killed in Teknaf ‘gunfights’

NEWAGE

Our Correspondent . Cox’s bazar
Aug 03,2019

Three suspected robbers and one drug peddler were killed in reported gunfights with police at Noorullah hill and Dogharchara point on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar early Saturday.

Three among the dead were — Rohingyas Mohammad Jonyed, Ayoub Ali and Mohadi, members of of Rohingya gang led by Abdul Hakim. The other one was Imran Mollah, son of late Jahirul Islam of Kalkini in Madaripour.

Army Officer, 2 Navy Personnel Killed in AA Rocket Attack in Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint
22 July 2019

A Myanmar Navy frigate, F-23, docks at the Danyawaddy Naval Base in southern Rakhine's Kyaukphyu Township. / Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy

YANGON—An army captain and two naval personnel based in southern Rakhine State’s Kyaukphyu Township were killed when the Arakan Army (AA) launched rocket attacks on two naval vessels on a river in Myebon Township last Friday.

A staff member from Kyaukphyu General Hospital confirmed to The Irrawaddy on Monday that three bodies arrived for postmortems on Saturday. According to the staff member, the bodies were identified as those of an army captain from Kyaukphyu-based Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) No. 543 and two personnel from Danyawaddy Naval Base, situated 4 kilometers east of downtown Kyaukphyu. Some Kyaukphyu locals said that the army officer was identified as Captain Soe Htet Aung.

Flash Floods Kill Two, Intensify Suffering in Rohingya Camps

The Irrawaddy

By Muktadir Rashid
10 July 2019
Rohingya refugees walk along a road at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on March 6, 2019. / Reuters

DHAKA—Flash floods and monsoon rains have intensified the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas living in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, displacing 2,700, damaging 3,400 homes and killing at least two, according to NGOs working in the area.

The Bangladesh government and local and international agencies are keeping volunteers on standby, fearing landslides in the densely populated neighborhoods.

Local authorities so far have recorded two deaths, including one child, during the ongoing monsoon rains.

Bangladesh police kill three suspected Rohingya traffickers; rescue 15 refugees

REUTERS

World News

June 25, 2019

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Bangladesh police killed three people suspected of trying to smuggle 15 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Malaysia in a clash on Tuesday near the South Asian nation’s main refugee camp, an official said, the second such incident in as many months.

Bomb blast in Maungdaw kills police and leaves three injured

Bni
Thursday, June 06, 2019
Development Media Group

                              

The accidental explosion of a bomb that occurred near the Taung Pyo (Right) bridge, killed police and left three others injured, an official from No. (1) Border Guard Force said.

Seven killed in Myanmar monastery shelling: witnesses

mizzima
By AFP
05 June 2019

Myanmar soldiers stand guard in Maungdaw. Photo: AFP

Seven people were killed when artillery rounds slammed into a monastery where they were sheltering from firefights between military and the Arakan Army (AA) in Myanmar's Rakhine state, witnesses said Tuesday.

Rohingya Man, 8-Year-Old Son Killed in Blast in Northern Rakhine

The Irrawaddy 

  By Moe Myint 

22 May 2019

YANGON—An explosion killed a Rohingya boy and his father and severely wounded another adult in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township on Tuesday, according to a village official.

The victims were identified as Mohamad Shofi, 38, his son Husson, 8, and Mohammad Shazam, an adult of unknown age, according to Ah Lel Kyun village administrative official U Win Hla Tun. Mohammad Shazam was transported to Sittwe Hospital for medical treatment this morning, U Win Hla Tun said.