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Maungdaw, Arakan State: A group of Rakhine youths accompanied by army personnel attacked and looted a bride-party vehicle while it was on Maungdaw-Aley Than Kyaw Highway of Maungdaw Township October 4, said a local villager. “Rakhine youths and a group of army stopped the vehicle near Horsara village and attacked it when the bride-party was returning from Nolbona (Pandawpin) village. The Rakhine Natala villagers are from Horsara Natala village and the army is from a nearby camp.”

Indonesia to provide housing for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim population. Photo: UNHCR /S. Kritsanavarin BANGKOK: Four months after inter-communal violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) continues to rise, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, adding that some 75,000 people are currently living in camps and many more are in need of humanitarian assistance. “Movement is still restricted in parts of Rakhine state, preventing some villagers from going to work, accessing markets, food supplies, health services and education,” a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Adrian Edwards, told reporters in Geneva. “Out of desperation, people are leaving villages to seek food and medical assistance at the IDP camps.”