Hundreds flee Myanmar border town to Thailand after clashes break out


A family from Myawaddy township that fled to Thailand. The family of six now live in this corrugated single-room house in Mae Sot. - ST PHOTO: TAN HUI YEE

MAE SOT, Thailand (The Straits Times/ANN): Hundreds of Myanmar civilians fled to western Thailand on April 20 after clashes broke out between Myanmar military and resistance forces near a bridge linking the two countries.

The Second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge links the strategic border township of Myawaddy and Thailand’s Mae Sot district.

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