Foods supply for displaced ethnic people in Taung Pyo Let Wae Township, Maungtaw

August 30, 2017

Rakhine State government distributed and supplied food and provisions to Arakanese people who fled recent violence in the area and took refuge in Taung Pyo Let Wae Township in Rakhine State.

U Naing Lin Aung, provisional head of township’s General Administration Department, said they are supplying rice, cooking oil, beans and salt.

Thirty sacks of rice, one sack of bean, 50 viss of cooking oil and two sacks of salts were provided yesterday and more aid is being arranged. On 28 August, the General Administration Department provided food and provisions to government staff members in Maungtaw. Buthidaung Township head of GAD and departments of township also provided rice, oil, salts and beans to displaced Arakanese people.

Tin Maung Lwin/ Min Htet AungRef; The Global New Light of Myanmar