BANDA ACEH: Several thousand villagers streamed into a crowded refugee camp in Indonesia's Aceh Province yesterday to avoid clashes between government troops and separatists, only to face food and water shortages.
Burhanuddin, a social services spokesman in Aceh, said that 16,250 refugees had fled to the town of Bireun over the past three days, up from some 12,000 on Saturday.
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