YANGON: Myanmar security forces shot dead at least six people in the troubled western state of Rakhine, after soldiers and police detained hundreds of people at a school, a military spokesman said.
The soldiers had rounded up about 275 people during a search for members of the rebel Arakan Army, said Brigadier Gen Zaw Min Tun from the military’s True News Information Team yesterday.
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