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6,700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar: MSF

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MNA Exclusive Desk: Global humanitarian NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced on Thursday that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed after violence broke out in Myanmar’s Rakhine state late August. Based on surveys of refugees in Bangladesh, the number is much higher than Myanmar’s official figure of 400, reports the BBC. ‘In the most conservative estimations’ at least 6,700 of those deaths have been caused by violence, including at least 730 children under the age of five, MSF said in a reports. MSF also known as Doctors Without Borders, said it was ‘the clearest indication yet of the widespread violence’ ...

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