About 1,300 people from Myanmar flee into Thailand after clashes broke out in a key border town

About 1,300 people from Myanmar flee into Thailand after clashes broke out in a key border town - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

BANGKOK — About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas.

Hundreds flee Myanmar border town to Thailand due to clashes

MAE SOT, Thailand – Hundreds of Myanmar civilians fled to western Thailand on April 20 after clashes broke out between Myanmar military and resistance forces near a bridge linking the two countries. The Second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge links the strategic border township of Myawaddy and Thailand’s Mae Sot district. The fighting erupted more than a week after ethnic armed group Karen National Union (KNU) and its allies overran Myanmar milita…

Fighting flares at Myanmar-Thai border

Fighting raged at Myanmar's eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, witnesses and Thailand's government sa

Myanmar: Hundreds flee to Thailand as fresh fighting erupts between army and guerrillas near border

More than a thousand people fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted near a border town that was recently captured by ethnic Karen guerrillas and their allies, officials said.

Hundreds flee Myanmar border town to Thailand after clashes break out

Fighting erupted after ethnic group Karen National Union and allies overran military bases around the border town of Myawaddy.

Clashes break out at Thai-Myanmar border between soldiers, armed groups

Thai police say the latest violence was triggered when Karen groups launched an attack against Myanmar troops.