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One dead after fresh Myanmar anti-Muslim riots: police
[Pak Daily Times] One person was killed and nine injured after mobs attacked mosques and burned homes in central Myanmar, authorities said Wednesday, in the latest religious unrest to erupt in the nation.Riots sparked Tuesday in the small town of Oakkan, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Yangon after a woman accidentally knocked into a young monk, authorities said, amid acute Buddhist-Mohammedan tensions following a series of attacks in March. "A man died in hospital of his injuries this morning," a police official told AFP. Authorities have locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 18 people after some 77 homes in four villages in the region north of the commercial hub Yangon were burned during a spate of arson on Tuesday evening, president's front man Ye Htut said in a Facebook update. Terrified villagers of both faiths said police were not there to protect them when a crowd attacked a local mosque on Tuesday evening in Mie Laung Sakhan village. Posted by: Fred 2013-05-02 |
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