10,000 estimated to have crossed border to Thailand
Rescue operation takes place after a landslide at a jade mine in the Hpakant area of Kachin State, Myanmar, on Thursday. (Myanmar Fire Services Department/Handout via Reuters)
Myanmar’s military carried out more airstrikes on a rebel-controlled area near the Thai border, the rebel group said on Friday, in the latest escalation of violence that has sent hundreds fleeing into Thailand.
The Karen National Union (KNU) said the military launched at least two airstrikes and fired some artillery rounds on an area under its control near the Thai-Myanmar border late on Thursday.
A Reuters reporter at Mae Sot, a Thai border town some 15km from where the air strikes…
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