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Myanmar says missing policeman found dead near border with Bangladesh after attack

A Myanmar family displaced from the recent fighting between government troops and the ethnic Arakan Army take shelter at a displacement camp housing over 700 people in Kyauktaw township in Rakhine state on Sunday. The western territory is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious divisions and security forces have clashed with both Rohingya insurgents and much better armed Rakhine fighters from the mostly Buddhist Arakan Army. | AFP-JIJI

Reuters

Dec 24, 2018

YANGON –

The body of a missing Myanmar policeman was found on the country's troubled border with Bangladesh, state media and officials said on Sunday after a clash with unknown gunmen last week.

Pvt. Aung Kyaw Thet had been missing since his patrol was fired on from the Bangladesh side of the border on Dec. 17, according to the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar.

His body was found on Friday with "gunshot wounds in his face, arm and leg," the newspaper said, adding that another policeman was wounded in the incident.

Myanmar says missing policeman found dead near border with Bangladesh after attack

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