This handout photo from local media group Chin World taken in May 2021 and released on May 20, 2021 shows displaced people from Mindat taking shelter in a forest in western Myanmar's Chin state. - AFP
YANGON (Reuters): Children and the elderly make up a large proportion of people taking refuge in camps in northwest Myanmar to escape fighting between the army and insurgents, residents said on Thursday (May 20), as France called for an urgent delivery of humanitarian aid.
In the past week, Chin State bordering India has seen some of the most serious fighting since Myanmar's military seized power in a coup on Feb 1 and removed the elected government led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
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