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It said Lashio's biggest mosque was torched by a mob while firefighters stood by.
NPR: Mosque, Orphanage Burned In New Myanmar Violence
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The crowd then rampaged through the town, setting fire to Lashio's largest mosque and several shops, state TV reported.
NPR: Mosque, Orphanage Burned In New Myanmar Violence
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He said authorities were "carefully inspecting" people coming into Lashio, hoping to keep out those intending on raising more trouble.
WSJ: Myanmar Town Restive After Clashes
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Lashio, about 100 miles from the China border, is seen as a key point for trade between the two countries.
WSJ: Myanmar Town Torched in Sectarian Violence
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She suffered minor injuries and was hospitalized, according to Maung Maung, the advocate-general of Myanmar's Shan State, where Lashio is located.
WSJ: Myanmar Town Torched in Sectarian Violence
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There were no reported fatalities from the rioting Tuesday evening in the remote town of Lashio near China's border, state media reported.
NPR: Mosque, Orphanage Burned In New Myanmar Violence
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The message cautiously noted that "two religious buildings and some shops" in Lashio were burned, without specifying if they were Muslim or Buddhist.
NPR: Mosque, Orphanage Burned In New Myanmar Violence
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"Muslim people who live near the burned buildings and shops are moving to other places, " San Zar Ni Aung, a Muslim resident of Lashio, said Wednesday.
WSJ: Myanmar Town Torched in Sectarian Violence
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Sectarian violence between Myanmar's majority Buddhists and minority Muslims has spread to the country's northeast, with mob setting a Muslim orphanage, a mosque and homes ablaze in the town of Lashio, near a major oil-and-gas pipeline to China, witnesses and officials reported.
WSJ: Myanmar Town Torched in Sectarian Violence
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In Lashio, the most important town in northeastern Myanmar, more than 400 Muslims, some of whom had homes burned and destroyed by armed mobs, took to makeshift shelters in two separate Buddhist monasteries, too afraid to stay in their neighborhoods or at their own damaged religious sites.
WSJ: Myanmar Town Restive After Clashes