30,000 displaced by Burma violence

14 Jun 2012, 10:05 pm   -   Source: AAP

Stability has been restored, but violence in Burma's Sittwe has left 32,000 displaced people in 37 camps.

More than 30,000 people have been displaced by an outbreak of deadly clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in western Burma, a senior local official says.

Nearly 31,900 people are being housed in 37 camps across Rakhine, Colonel Htein Lin, security and border affairs minister for the state said on Thursday.

He said stability has been restored to the regional capital Sittwe.

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