Border guards, civilian killed in ambush by armed group in western Myanmar

File photo of ethnic Chin people hold placards during a protest asking for an end to conflict in Chin state and Rakhin State in Yangon on July 13, 2019. - AFP

YANGON (Xinhua): Three border guards and one civilian were killed in an ambush by the Arakan Army armed group in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state, Myanmar's military spokesman told Xinhua on Tuesday (June 23).

Four police personnel and a civilian were also injured in the attack, Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun said, when government forces were on their way to perform security operation in the Rathedaung township in Rakhine on Monday evening.