PETALING JAYA: At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state during the attacks in August, a survey by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) has found. In a statement Thursday, MSF said the deaths, which included 730 children younger than five years old, were caused by violence. These numbers are a conservative estimate, it said, citing a survey it conducted at refugee settlement camps. The survey revealed that between Aug 25 and Sept 24, an estimated 9,000 Rohingya died, with 71.1%, or 6,700 deaths, due to violence. MSF added that since then, more than 647,000 Rohingya have fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh.

Source: The Star December 14, 2017 06:45 UTC