Monday, June 11, 2012

Police collect bodies in strife-torn Myanmar town

 

Myanmar's Rakhine ethnic people pray at Shwedagon pagoda on Saturday, June 9, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. A group of some 150 Rakhine ethnic nationals and Buddhist monks went to the Shwedagon Pagoda - Myanmar's most revered Buddhist shrine - to say prayers for those killed in sectarian violence in western Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)With fearful residents cowering indoors, security forces patrolling a tense town in western Myanmar collected bodies Monday from the debris of homes burned down over the weekend in some of the country's deadliest sectarian bloodshed in years.

Police collect bodies in strife-torn Myanmar town
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:47:18 GMT

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