Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict.
A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh in violence UN investigators have said warrants the prosecution of top generals for genocide and crimes against humanity.
The latest attack occurred late Saturday took place in Yoetayoke village, just an hour north of Rakhine state’s capital Sittwe.
“Nine police were killed, one was injured and another one is missing,” a senior police officer told AFP, not wanting to be named.
A leaked police report said weapons were also taken from the police station.
No group has yet claimed responsibility and the AA could not immediately be reached for comment.
A local administrator confirmed investigations are under way.
