People displaced by fighting in Kyauktaw increases by 4,000 in one week

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"...Up to 4,000 people in Kyauktaw Township have been newly displaced over the course of one week, it has been reported. Among them, approximately 2,000 are in Kyauktaw town, with about 2,000 seeking safely in surrounding villages. According to the emergency relief committee secretary U Maung Tun Kin, a number of different settlements have sprung up within Kyauktaw town. 1,704 IDPs are staying in open camps,107 in Kan Kyi Shin Monastery, approximately 100 in Tharthanar Biman Monastery and about 100 ethnic Mro in a Christian church..."

Source/publisher: 

BNI media group

Date of Publication: 

2020-03-20

Date of entry: 

2020-03-21

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  • Websites/Multiple Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

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Text

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    • Good