Fires destroy more villages in Myanmar’s Rohingya region: sources
YANGON: Several more villages were burnt down on Saturday in a part of northwest Myanmar where many Rohingya Muslims had been sheltering from violence sweeping the area, two sources monitoring the situation said.
The fires, which started on Friday when up to eight villages went up in flames in the ethnically mixed Rathedaung region, have increased concerns that more minority Rohingya will flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Blazes started on Saturday engulfed as many as four more settlements in Rathedaung, likely…