BAGAN, Myanmar: A squad of gun-toting police patrol Myanmar’s sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists because coronavirus restrictions.

Each evening as dusk falls, about 100 officers fan out across the plain of Bagan measuring 50 square kilometers (19 square miles), sweeping torches over the crumbling monuments to scour for intruders.

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