Myanmar Diplomat Hurt in Embassy Attack
From Times Wire Reports
Three men armed with firebombs, machetes and an ax attacked Myanmar’s embassy in Malaysia, wounding one diplomat with the ax and starting a fire that destroyed the building, officials and witnesses said.
Police arrested three suspected attackers and an accomplice. The four, members of Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic Muslim minority, had been turned away from the embassy after demanding that officials endorse documents they believed would help them win U.N. refugee status, officials said.
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