YANGON -- The "Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army" (ARSA)
continued to ambush government security forces in Maungtaw, Myanmar's northern
Rakhine state in the past two days, leaving one terrorist dead, the Myanmar
News Agency reported Wednesday.
The villages that came under attack are Ducheertan (East), Yaymyat
Taung and Jintaw, where more than 100 houses were set on fire by the terrorists
before they retreated, the government's Information Committee was quoted as
saying.
Over the weekend, the extremists had burned down hundreds of houses as
they invaded other villages in Maungtaw and exchanged gunfire with security
forces in six other villages.
The terrorists launched renewed attacks on 30 police outposts in
northern Rakhine on Aug. 25 and as of Aug. 31, more than 52 attacks by the
extremists killed 13 security force members and injured 15 others.
Some 14 civilians, including seven Hindu people and five Daingnet
ethnic people, were also killed while fleeing the attacks.
More than 2,625 houses from villages in Maungtaw were burnt down by the
terrorists, with 370 bodies of terrorists uncovered as of last weekend since
August 25.
So far, about 38,000 Muslims from Rakhine state have reportedly fled
toward the Bangladesh border.
Amid threats by ARSA, the security forces have evacuated 11,720 ethnic
villagers to safer places and provided them with aid, the military said. (Xinhua)
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