A total of 20 students were injured after a mortar launched by the Arakan Army, a local insurgent group, hit a primary school in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.
On Thursday morning, members of the Arakan Army attacked a group of Myanmar military personnel during in the state’s Buthidaung township, Xinhua news agency reported.
The militants left the spot when the security forces retaliated.
The Arakan Army, a rebel group fighting for the rights of ethnic Rakhine people in Myanmar, clashes with the Myanmar military regularly and has been designated as a terrorist group by the government.