Hundreds homeless in Myanmar

epa03837844 A boy stands next his burnt down house in Htan Gone village, Kanbalu township, Sagaing Region, Myanmar, 26 August 2013. A mob attacked and burned dozens of Muslim properties in north-western Myanmar, police said 25 August after authorities refused to hand over a Muslim man suspected of the attempted rape of a Buddhist woman. Police estimated that 20 shops and about 40 houses were burned down by the mob of some 1,000 Buddhists. No one was killed in the latest anti-Muslim violence, police said. EPA/STR

YANGON: Muslims displaced by Myanmar’s latest eruption of religious violence picked through the charred remains of their shattered homes as police patrolled the streets, amid concern over spreading unrest.

Hundreds of people were made homeless after about 1,000 anti-Muslim rioters rampaged through villages in Kanbalu, in the central region of Sagaing, on Saturday evening, setting fire to Muslim property and attacking rescue vehicles with catapults.