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The AA has used rocket-propelled grenades on outposts held by border police and Myanmar’s military in mountainous northern Rakhine State.

Paletwa in Chin State has been blocked off by fighting and the Chin Human Rights Organization says villagers are forced to feed rebel troops.

Fighting between the Arakan Army and Myanmar’s military is driving thousands of civilians from their homes across Rakhine State.

The military says it is strengthening the border region in Rakhine State to tackle the Arakan Army and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.

Sources say fighting is for control of major river and road links across Rakhine State.

Myanmar’s armed forces are accused of torturing another civilian to death in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State, with the Arakan National Party saying deaths in custody must end.

Nearly 3,000 villagers have fled their homes after naval shelling and the threat of military raids in response to alleged action by the Arakan Army.

Myanmar’s military says its deployments along the Bangladeshi border are to tackle rebel groups, not threaten its western neighbor.

A chief medic in Sittwe says the current strain of coronavirus is more virulent but less deadly than earlier this year.

The deaths of four civilians, including two children, in a Rakhine State village leads to international demands for a ceasefire.