One dead after fresh Myanmar anti-Muslim riots, says police

OAKKAN, Myanmar: One person was killed and nine injured after mobs attacked mosques and burned homes in central Myanmar, authorities said on Wednesday, in the latest religious unrest to erupt in the nation.

Riots sparked on Tuesday in the small town of Oakkan, around 100 km north of Yangon after a woman accidentally knocked into a young monk, authorities said, amid acute Buddhist-Muslim tensions following a series of attacks in March.

"A man died in hospital of his injuries this morning," a police official told AFP.

Fire at Islamic school kills 13 children in Yangon

YANGON :An electrical fire at an Islamic school in Myanmar's biggest city killed 13 children early on Tuesday, authorities said.

The children, all boys, died of suffocation in the fire at a dormitory of a school next to a mosque in Yangon at about 2.40am local time, neighbours and officials said.

"A total of 13 boys were killed in the fire caused by overheating of a transformer. They died of suffocation after inhaling too much smoke," a Central Fire Service duty officer said.

Buddhists-Muslims violence spreads in Myanmar

Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar spread to at least two other towns in the country’s heartland over the weekend, undermining government efforts to quash an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of people and displaced 10,000 more.

President Thein Sein declared a state of emergency in the region on Friday and deployed army troops to the worst hit city, Meikhtila. But even as soldiers were able to impose order there after several days of anarchy that saw armed Buddhists torch the city’s Muslim quarters, unrest was reported in two other towns to the south.

'At least 10 dead' in Buddhist-Muslim clashes in Myanmar's Rakhine state

YANGON : At least 10 people have been killed in riots in central Myanmar, a local MP said on Thursday, in the worst communal violence since Buddhist-Muslim clashes in western Rakhine state last year.

Mr Win Htein, a member of the opposition National League for Democracy party, said he had seen bodies at the scene of fresh fighting in the town of Meiktila on Thursday. "More than 10 people were killed," he told AFP by telephone from the town, which is his constituency seat.

The unrest began on Wednesday after an argument in a Muslim-owned gold shop turned violent, according to a post on the Myanmar Police Force's Facebook page, which said around 200 people had clashed on the streets.

Police have so far confirmed that two people died, including a Buddhist monk, after sustaining severe burns in Wednesday's fighting, while several mosques were also torched by angry mobs.

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