Displaced beginning to return to Maungdaw

Displaced beginning to return to Maungdaw
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Muslims people gather at Thet Kel Pyin Muslim IDPs (Internally displaced person) camp in Rakhine State near capital Sittwe, western Myanmar, 07 September 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
Muslims people gather at Thet Kel Pyin Muslim IDPs (Internally displaced person) camp in Rakhine State near capital Sittwe, western Myanmar, 07 September 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA

Some of the people who fled Maungdaw township after deadly fighting broke out in the volatile northern part of the Rakhine state earlier this month are trickling back into Maungdaw as the area struggles to return to normal, RFA reported on 24 October.

Some schools have reopened in Maungdaw, the administrative capital of Maungdaw township in the restive Rakhine state, but schools in rural villages remain closed over safety fears, Rakhine state government officials told RFA’s Myanmar Service.

About 40 people from 14 households, who were staying in Rakhine state capital of Sittwe, have returned home. State government officials are providing them with emergency goods for living, while the civil society organization Sittwe Free Funeral Service is providing 50,000 kyats (U.S. $39) for each family, the report said.

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