WEB DESK
Seventy one persons including 12 security forces have been killed in militant attacks on police posts in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. More than 20 posts were targeted by Muslim militants in pre-dawn raids, the government said, in Rakhine’s worst violence for months.
Rakhine has been hit by clashes between Muslim and Buddhist communities.
The attacks come a day after a report warned more people would be radicalised if ethnic tensions are not addressed. Rakhine state, in western Myanmar, is home to more than a million Rohingya Muslims.
Tensions with the majority Buddhist population have been rumbling for years, and tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, accusing Myanmar authorities of ethnic persecution.