Myanmar issues curfew order in western state regions

sagarmedia ♦ June 9, 2012 ♦ Leave a Comment

 YANGON,  Myanmar Rakhine state’s township governments Friday night issued a dusk-to-dawn curfew orders in unrest-affected regions of Maungtaw and Buthidaung to quell a series of violence taking place since afternoon, an urgent breaking news of the state radio and television said in a night broadcast.Curfew order, banning the gathering of more than five persons, is effective from 6 p.m. (local time) to 6 a.m. for an indefinite period.Since early afternoon, the mob set fire to residential houses of local Rakhinese in Maungtaw, stabbing people in groups and looting properties, the news report said. According to local sources, at least four people were killed in the violence.The outbreak of the unrest came shortly after some bloody incidents occurred in the state over the past several days, in which three Bengali-Muslims were accused of raping and killing an ethnic Rakhinese woman, and 10 other Muslims were beaten to death in Taunggup by unidentified mob.Media agencies