Myanmar army shelling kills woman, two infants in Rakhine

Myanmar nationalist group supporters protesting against Gambia and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for accusing Myanmar of committing genocide over Rohingya minority in Rakhine state in Yangon. - Reuters

YANGON: Shelling by Myanmar's military killed a woman and two infants, and wounded six others in Rakhine State on Tuesday (Dec 3), according to residents and a lawmaker in the town of Mrauk U, where security forces are fighting against an ethnic militant group.

The army unleashed a counter-insurgency campaign against the Arakan Army, which recruits from the region's mostly Buddhist ethnic Rakhine population, almost a year ago.