YANGON, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- The number of displaced people has risen to 30,200 due to recent series of extremist terrorist attacks in Maungtaw, Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, the Information Committee of the government said on Friday.
From Aug, 25 to Sept. 4, residents from Taungpyo, Letwe, Kwuntheepin, Thechaung and Meetaik areas in Maungtaw district fled to border areas for refuge and camped along the Myanmar side of the border.
Earlier reports said 97 terrorist attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) occurred during the period, killing 36 people including 13 security force members, two government service personnel and 21 ethnic people and injuring 22.
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