YANGON, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- The "Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA)" continued to ambush the government's security forces in Maungtaw, Myanmar's northern Rakhine state over the last two days, leaving one terrorist dead, the Myanmar News Agency reported Wednesday.
The villages, which came under attack, are Ducheertan (East), Yaymyat Taung and Jintaw where more than 100 houses were set fire by the terrorists before they retreated, the government's Information Committee was quoted as saying.
At the weekend, the extremist terrorists had burned down hundreds of houses as they invaded other villages in Maungtaw and exchanged fire with the security forces in other six villages.
Extremist terrorists launched renewed attacks on 30 police outposts in the northern Rakhine on Aug. 25 and as of Aug. 31, more than 52 attacks by the extremist terrorists killed 13 security forces members and injured 15 others.
Some 14 civilians, including seven Hindu people and five Daingnet ethnic people, were also killed while fleeing the attacks.
Over 2,625 houses from villages in Maungtaw were burnt down by the terrorists with 370 bodies of terrorists uncovered as of last weekend since Aug. 25.
So far, about 38,000 Muslims people from Rakhine state have reportedly fled toward the Bangladesh border.
Amid threat by ARSA extremist terrorists, the security forces have evacuated 11,720 ethnic villagers to safer places and provided them with aid, the military claimed.
