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SITTWE, MYANMAR—Burmese authorities on Friday revised downward the death
toll from this week’s ethnic violence in the country’s west after
warning that the strife risks harming the country’s reputation as it
seeks to shift to democratic rule.
State television reported Friday night that 67 people had died, 95 were
injured and 2,818 houses burned down from Sunday through Thursday in
seven townships of Rakhine state.
Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing told reporters shortly before the
broadcast that the previous count he had given of 112 dead in violence
involving the Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya communities was
based on a mistaken tally of figures received
by his office. His revised figures of 64 dead and 68 wounded was
slightly lower than that given by state television.
“Many of those who were killed as a result of clashes between the two
sides, and at least two died of gunshot injuries,” Win Myaing said.
There has been no breakdown by ethnic group of the casualties. Some
Rakhine residents in affected areas have told The Associated
Press they were shot at by government soldiers trying to keep order.
The mob violence in Burma, also known as Myanmar, has seen entire
villages torched and has drawn calls worldwide for government
intervention.
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