Number of Myanmar displaced now at 3 million: UN

A Kayah women carrying containers from a delivery of drinking water at a camp for internally displaced people in Demoso township, in Myanmar's eastern Kayah state. - AFP

YANGON: The number of displaced people in Myanmar has reached three million, the United Nations said, the vast majority forced to flee their homes by conflict unleashed by the military's 2021 coup.

Around 2.7 million have fled since the putsch that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's government after a short-lived experiment with democracy.