Driver killed in attack on UN vehicle in Myanmar’s Rakhine
A Myanmar Red Cross Society member holding pamphlets about coronavirus preventive measures in Sittwe, Rakhine state, Myanmar, on March 28. Scores have been killed, hundreds injured and tens of thousands displaced since fighting erupted at the beginning of last year in Rakhine. – EPA pic, April 21, 2020.
A MYANMAR government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United Nations-marked vehicle was ambushed as they were carrying Covid-19 test samples in conflict-ridden Rakhine state, the UN said today. The country’s northwest has been embroiled in an increasingly brutal civil war between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army rebels demanding more autonomy for the state’s ethnic Rakhine population.
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