UN World Food Program decries looting and burning of its warehouse in western Myanmar combat zone

The United Nations’ food agency has strongly condemned the looting of food supplies and burning of one of its warehouses in a war-torn area in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine. Tuesday's statement by the World Food Program says the destroyed building in Rakhine’s Maungdaw township held enough food and supplies to sustain 64,000 people for one month. The incident happened on Sunday, and makes even more desperate a humanitarian crisis caused by bitter fighting between troops of Myanmar’s military government and guerrillas of the Arakan Army belonging the Rakhine ethnic minority, which seeks autonomy from the central government. It is one of several groups fighting government forces in a nationwide civil war.