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Injured people are treated in Sittwe General Hospital in Sittwe late on 3 June 2012. Ten people were shot and wounded in Sittwe, the Rakhine capital when riot police tried to break up a protest. The rally by about 200 people was unrelated to the attack on the bus. (Reuters) Tensions are on the rise in Burma after a sectarian attack left ten people dead in Arakan state on Sunday.

စစ္ေတြ၊ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္။  ။ ဂ်မာအသ္ျဖင့္ သြားေနေသာ မြတ္ဆလင္ ၈ ဦး ၊ ကားကုမၸဏီ၏အက်ိဳးေဆာင္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးတဦး ႏွင့္ ကား အကူတဦးတုိ႔ကုိ အၾကမ္းဖက္သတ္ျဖတ္သည့္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈ တခုကုိ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ ေတာင္ပုိင္းရွိ ေတာင္ကုတ္ျမိဳ႕တြင္ ဇူလုိင္လ ၃ ရက္ေန႕ ေန႔လည္ ၃ နာရီခန႔္တြင္ ၾကိဳတင္စီစဥ္ထားေသာ အစြန္းေရာက္ အၾကမ္းဖက ္ဗုဒၵဘာသာ ရခုိင္လူမ်ိဳးတစု မွ က်ဳးလြန္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သံတြဲ ဂ်မာအသ္ အဖြဲ႔မွ ျပန္လာသူတဦး က ေျပာျပသည္။

Buthidaung, Arakan State:  Rohingyas, in Maungdaw district - Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships- have to spend Kyat 72,000 for only getting marriage permission from Burma border security force (Nasaka) after the new government of President Thein Sein, said a local leader on condition of anonymity.  

Akyab, Arakan State:  A massacre of 8 Muslim pilgrims along with one escort – a Muslim lady – and one helper was occurred in Taungup Township in southern Arakan State, Burma yesterday at about 3:00pm by an organized terrorist gang of Buddhist Rakhines, according to a pilgrim who return from Thandwe and see off the eight Muslim pilgrims. The victims were Muslim pilgrims (Jamat)    photo: www.mandalaygazette.com “The victims were Muslim pilgrims (Jamat – Islam religious persons, who are going to one place to another where they discuss about religious matters) returning to Rangoon in a bus after completing of their spiritual service at Thetsa Masjid of Thandwe, southern Arakan on June 3, 2012, Rakhine terrorists set upon it and massacred 8 Muslim pilgrims along with one escort and one helper. The culprits were celebrating triumph spitting and tossing the wine and alcohol on the dead bodies lying on the road.” The names of the 8 murdered pilgrims were: Muhamme...

Massacre of Muslim pilgrims by the gang of Rakhine terrorists in Taunggote town condemned and exemplary punishment against the culprits demanded The undersigned organisations have strongly condemned the massacre of 10 Muslims, including 8 pilgrims, at 3 p.m on 3 June 2012, by an organized terrorist gang of Buddhist Rakhines at Taunggote, in southern Arakan State, Burma. 

  Ten Myanmar Muslims were killed by Rakhine people in Northern Myanmar Yesterday Ethnic Arakan, also known as Rakhine, killed ten Myanmar  Muslims  in barbaric and in-human manner yesterday in a sectarian attack.

People from above list are Muslims who left from Tachan Pai Mosque to Than Dwe for Chila(Jama at).On  their way back to Yangon from Than Twe Mosque on June 3, 2012  , 30 Rhakhine Buddhists killed them with knives at Taung Goute  which is situated on the way.The number of the car which carried Muslims who were killed is 7 (Ga) 7868 and it was also burnt.The other 5 muslims escaped.The list above is  only 8 from 10 victims.