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By TODD PITMAN
Associated Press / May 29, 2013
LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — State television has reported that new violence between Buddhists and Muslims in northeastern Myanmar has left one person dead and four injured.
The report did not identify the victims or their religions. Most if not all of Wednesday’s attacks in the town of Lashio appeared to be carried out by Buddhists on Muslim targets.
The unrest began Tuesday after a Muslim man reportedly splashed gasoline on a Buddhist woman and set her alight. The man was arrested but Buddhist mobs took revenge by burning a mosque, a Muslim school and other buildings.
Calm had appeared to return Wednesday morning, but Buddhist gangs on motorcycles rumbled through the streets swinging sticks and iron rods, and a movie theater was reportedly burned down.end of story marker
