Police officers gather as they guard a Muslim residential area in Mandalay July 3, 2014. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
MANDALAY Myanmar (Reuters) - Police in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-biggest city, said they had arrested another five people after sectarian violence in which a Buddhist and a Muslim died, but an overnight curfew and a heavy security presence appeared to have restored calm on Friday.
The clampdown followed two nights of violence starting on Tuesday when about 300 Buddhists converged on a tea shop owned by a Muslim man accused of raping a Buddhist woman.
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