Food aid suspended as Myanmar state sinks deeper into violence

YANGON: The World Food Program has suspended food aid in Myanmar's violence-scorched Rakhine State, as the humanitarian situation deteriorates with a surging death toll and tens of thousands—both Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Buddhists—on the move.

Relief agencies, including WFP, have repeatedly been accused by Myanmar authorities of allowing their rations to fall into the hands of Rohingya militants, whose attacks on police posts on August 25 sparked the current violence.