Three killed as suspected Rohingya insurgent camp found in Myanmar - newspaper


  • World
  • Thursday, 22 Jun 2017

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar security forces killed three people while clearing a suspected Rohingya insurgent training camp in the mountains in the troubled northwestern state of Rakhine, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar daily said on Thursday.

The authorities conducted "area clearance operation" over the last two days, uncovering a tunnel, homemade weapons, huts, rations, utensils and other items used by the militants in the training, the newspaper said.

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