At least 3,000 people have fled into China due to fighting in northern Myanmar, Beijing said Tuesday, as the death toll from clashes between the military and ethnic insurgents rose to 10.
The violence is a fresh blow to de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's hopes of forging a nationwide peace agreement after decades of bloody insurgencies in Myanmar's borderlands.
Locals near the Chinese border in Myanmar's northern state of Shan said they were fleeing heavy fighting between the army and four armed ethnic groups, including the powerful Kachin Independence Army.
Suu Kyi's office on Tuesday said 10 people had been killed near the border town of Muse, a hotbed of smuggling, over three days.
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