Thousands of people have fled renewed fighting between Myanmars army and ethnic insurgents in the countrys remote north, a United Nations official said, as a long-simmering conflict intensifies.
More than 4,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar's northernmost state of Kachin near the border with China in the last three weeks, Mark Cutts, the head of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told AFP late Friday.