DHAKA: Five Muslims have been killed in sectarian clashes in western Myanmar, according to a new police toll on Wednesday, after a mob of hundreds of Buddhists went on a rampage.

‘The death toll rose to five - four men and a woman,’ a local police officer told media, adding that the deaths happened on Tuesday in Thabyuchaing in Rakhine state.

A Muslim village official gave the same death toll, reports The Straits Times.

BDST: 1603 HRS, OCT 02, 2013
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