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Rohingya Refugees Pour Out Of Myanmar

02/09/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, Rohingya Refugees Pour Out Of Myanmar

United Nations estimates nearly sixty thousand Rohingya Muslims have fled to the border

United Nations estimates nearly sixty thousand Rohingya Muslims have fled to the border.

The United Nations estimates that nearly sixty thousand Rohingya Muslims have fled to the Bangladeshi border to escape escalating violence. Also: President Trump meets victims of Hurricane Harvey, and the woman reunited with her engagement ring after accidentally mailing it more than 200 miles away.

(Photo: Rohingya refugees reaching for food aid near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, Credit: STR/AFP/Getty Images)

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