Arakan News Agency
Thousands of families from the villages of southern Maungdaw set out for the coastal strip to escape armed Buddhist gangs driven by the Myanmar authorities, who continued to chase them with weapons after burning their villages.
The source said: The large numbers are difficult to limit the villages of Kaloon, Andang and Gora Khali, and others, The Rohingya people ran into the arms of the sea in hopes of surviving with their families and children after their homes were burned down in their villages and looted their money and killed dozens of their relatives, especially young people, while dozens of children and women were drowned in the middle of the Gulf as they tried to cross deeper waters; their bodies were seen floating on the surface of the water; they could not be rescued in the absence of emergency .
Human Rights Watch said satellite images showed dozens of burnt villages that were populated.
