Four villagers were killed and six injured in fighting between ethnic Arakan Army soldiers and government troops in Myanmar’s Rakhine state beginning Sunday, with more than 800 villagers now sheltering in Buddhist monasteries, local residents said.

The fighting, which took place in an area between Shwe Tamar and Sapar Htar villages in Rakhine’s Minbya township, also left soldiers killed on both sides, spokesmen for the AA and Myanmar’s military said.

Speaking to RFA’s Myanmar Service, Sapar Htar village leader Myo Zin Aung said the villagers killed and hurt were struck by a mortar shell on Monday near a monastery compound in Sapar Htar.