Nine policemen killed in Rakhine border attack

A series of attacks targeting border posts along Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh have left nine police officers dead, officials in Rakhine region have said. The attacks on three police posts near Maungdaw early on Sunday appeared to be co-ordinated, they said. Police said those responsible were from the persecuted Rohingya minority group. Rakhine has seen […]

A series of attacks targeting border posts along Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh have left nine police officers dead, officials in Rakhine region have said. The attacks on three police posts near Maungdaw early on Sunday appeared to be co-ordinated, they said. Police said those responsible were from the persecuted Rohingya minority group.
Rakhine has seen simmering tension between its Buddhist and Rohingya Muslim populations. Several attackers were also killed in Sunday’s attacks, an official in Maungdaw told BBC Burmese.
The assailants looted more than 50 guns and thousands of bullets from the guard posts, police said. They were said to be armed mainly with knives and home-made slingshots that fire iron bolts.
Communal violence in Rakhine state in 2012 left scores dead and displaced more than 100,000.